practical research
Cards (35)
- asking questions to obtain information
- this can be launched to get behind the common understanding of certain issues, events, and circumstances that are otherwise difficult to comprehend due to some missing information
- encompasses the entire spectrum of questioning, exploring, and seeking answers about the world around us
- a process of systematic inquiry that entails the collection of data, documentation of critical information, and analysis and interpretation of that data/information in accordance with suitable methodologies set by scientific professional fields and academic disciplines
- defined as the creation of new knowledge and/or the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way so as to generate new concepts, methodologies, and understandings.
- aa systematic study directed toward better scientific knowledge or understanding at a topic
- focused and actionable
- a fundamental process of scientific inquiry
- it is a structured, step-by-step approach we follow to answer questions. We practice this when conducting scientific research
- is at the core of every scientific exploration
- involves collecting and analyzing non-numerical data to understand concepts, opinions, and experiences
- it can be used to gather in-depth insights, into a problem or generate new ideas for research
- naturalistic method of research which deals with the concern of human difficulty by discovering it straightly
- used to explore ideas
- focuses on formulating a theory or hypothesis
- the analysis of data involves summarizing, categorizing, and interpretating
- methodologies include interviews with open-ended questions
- purpose: to understand and interpret social interactions
- group studied: smaller and not randomly selected
- type of data collected: open-ended responses, interview, participant obeservations, field notes
- type of data analysis: identify patterns, features, theories
- role of researcher: researcher and heir biases may be known to participants in the study, and participants characteristics may be known to the researcher
- results: particular or specialized findings that is less generalizable
- educational research is the opposite of this research, which involves collecting data for statistical analysis
- is a positivist scientific method which refers to a general set of orderly discipline procedures to acquire information
- used to test theories and hypothesis
- used to establish generalizations about the topic
- data analysis would involve the use of mathematics and statistics
- methodologies include experiments, measurements, and surveys with close-ended questions
- purpose: to test hypothesis, look at cause and effect, and make predictions
- group studied: larger and randomly selected
- type of data collected: numbers and statistics
- form of data collected: based on precise measurements using structured and validated data-collection instruments
- role of researcher: researcher and their biases are not known to participants in the study, and participant characteristics are hidden from the researcher
- results: generalization findings that can be applied to other populations.