Practical Research

• Seeking for truth, information, or bring knowledge. Nature of Inquiry
• Inquiry - more on questions
• TO PRODUCE EVIDENCE - BASED PRACTICE - Results must published to be adopted and shared.
• Research - more on creating knowledge
• TO ESTABLISH CREDIBILITY IN THE PROFESSION - To produce new procedure, program and practices.
• TO OBSERVE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE PROFESSION - Every action has a rationale
• TO PROVIDE COST-EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH DOCUMENATATION - Results not made known publicly are useless endeavor.
• Research Paradigm - Outline that guides you to be a researcher
• Two main aspects of Research:

  1. Research Foundation
  2. Research Methodology
• Research Problem - Describe the undesignable questions related to a problem.
• Research Purpose - Describes how the study will fill knowledge gap, thus present the significant point of research.
• Research Question - What, Why, How manner
• Conceptual Framework - Outline that present the topics, variables, and their relation.
• Related Literature - Relate the former concept of former study to the study.
• Research Approach and Design - Dictates how the method will be done
• Data Collection - As a researcher, you have to decide how many participants.
• Conclusion - States the problem then findings, then conclusion
• Research Paper Structure:

  1. Section
  2. Abstract
  3. Outline
  4. Introduction
  5. Literature Review
  6. Methodology
  7. Results
  8. Discussion
  9. Recommendations
  10. Limitations
  11. Conclusions
  12. Acknowledgement or Appendix
  13. References
• Research Designs:

  1. Descriptive Design
  2. Explanatory Design
  3. Cohort Design
  4. Cross-Sectional Design
  5. Longitudinal Design
  6. Sequential Design
  7. Mixed Method
• Prieto et. al. (2017)
• Non-Researchable Questions: Questions that can be answered by yes or no.
• Researchable Question - a question that can be answered by research.