MAT 219

• Basic Research


  fundamental knowledge
• Applied Research


  real-world questions and applications
• Evaluation Research


  determine the worth, merit, and quality of intervention programs
• Action Research


  Solving local problems
• Orientational Research


  reducing inequality
• Epistemology


  theory of knowledge and its justification
• empericism


  all knowledge comes from experience
• reasoning


  rationalism - primary source of knowledge
• science 


  systematic actions to answer a questions
• Science is progressive
• Referees


  group of experts that evaluate journals
• Basic assumptions of science

  1. Psychological factors - characteristics
  2. Social Psychological - effects to one another
  3. Sociological - form and change
• exploration


  attempting to generate ideas about phenomena
• Objectives of exploration

  1. to explore
  2. to describe
  3. to explain
  4. to predict
  5. to influence
• 2 scientific method

  1. exploratory method
  2. confirmatory method
• Criterion of Falsifiability


  property that statements and theories should be testable and refutable
• rule of parsimory


  preferring the most simple theory that works
• replication


  research examining same variables with different people
• principle of evidence


  philosophical idea that emperical research provides evidence not proof
• Characteristics of Research

  1. Relevance
  2. Novelty
  3. Feasibility
  4. Clarity and Specificity
  5. Contribution
  6. Interest and Motivation