types of research
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- based on application of research method
- pure research - deals with concepts, aims to increase knowledge
- applied research - to apply, to find ways to make positive changes in society
- Based on purpose of the research
- descriptive research - giving potrayal on a person, thing etc
- correlational research - connectedness of two factors that affect research
- explanatory research - elaborates the reason behind the relationship and why such relationship exist
- exploratory research - to find out how reasonable it is to conduct a research on a certain topic
- action research - need to do it right away for improvements mostly in schools
- qualitative research
- non-numerical data
- people's experiences, perception
- quantitative research
- numerical data (percentage, fractions, numbers)
- involves measurements of data
- purpose of qualitativeto explore or interpret a human phenomena, event or experience
- purpose of quantito generate objective description and make prediction
- qualitative research
- subjective - interpretation of results are at times, influence by researchers personal biases
- inductive - begins with analysis of patterns from data and ends with creating a theory
- quantitative research
- stratistical analysis - uses mathematical formula to objectively have "probabilities"
- objective - uses scales and measures to interpret results.
- deductive - begins with hypothesis/theory and ends whether the theory is true or not
- characteristics of qualitative research
- human understanding and interpretation
- active, powerful and forceful
- multiple research approaches and method
- speficity to generalication
- contextualization
- diversified data in real life situations
- abounds with words and visuals
- internal analysis
- approaches in research
- scientific/positive
- naturalistic
- triangulation
- types of qualitative
- case study
- ethnography
- phenomenology
- historical analysis
- ground theory