Research

• What is the middle french of research?

  recherche
• What is the old french of research?

  recerchier
• what does recherche means?

  to go about seeking
• 3 steps:

  1. pose a question
  2. collect data to answer the question
  3. provide an answer to the question
• Documentation - it describes, explain or instruct regarding some attributes of an particular object
• Discovery - detecting something new or something previously unrecognized as meaningful
• Philosophical Interpretation - assignment of meanings to various concepts
• Research and Development - set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations
• Scientific Research - systematic way of gathering data and harnessing curiosity
• Original Research - not exclusively based on summary
• Artistic Research - a research method that combines artistic practice with creative works
• Research in the Humanities - it has different methods such as semiotics and hermeneutics
• Scientific Research - It follows a certain structural process
• Historical Research - It contains historical methods
• Documentary Research - is a type of research that involves the collection of information from primary sources and use of documents
• 2 Major Types of Emperical Research Design:

  1. Qualitative Research
  2. Quantitative Research
• Hypothesis - A tentative explanation that predicts a causal relationship between variables
• Construct - it exists theoretically but is not directly observable
• Data - It is a factual information that is used for basis reasoning, discussion, and caculation
• Models - Representations of objects, ideas used for imitation and emulation
• Measurement - obtaining numerical description of things that possesses specified characteristics
• Participants - individuals who's physiological and/or behavioral characteristics and response are the object of study
• Population - the target group under investigation and it is a set of under consideraton
• Questionnaires - Structured sets of questions on specified subjects
• Reliability - it measure yield consistent results. thus similar groups would yield similar results
• Sample - A small part of a population that is used to represent the whole population
• Triangulation - it is a multimethod research strategy that involves the use of more than one method to gather data
• Theory - a general explanation about a specific behavior
• Unit of Analysis - it is a observable entity or phenomenon being analyzed by a study
• Validity - method can be reliable, measuring the same thing, but not valid
• Variable - any characteristics or trait such as (gender, race, academic major)