Research

• Primary Source - information that was created at the same time as an event.
• Primary Source - diaries, speches, letters, official records, autobiographies.
• Secondary source - its informationfrom somewhere else or by a person not directly involved in the event.
• Secondary source - encyclopedia, textbooks, book reports
• Research - an inquiry-based activity that allows researcher to read exsting literature, look for elevant data, interpret and analyze information then formulate questions and recommendations.
• Research - fact-finding activity that requires a researcher to look closely to the situation to understand the problem, and then investigate.
• Basic research - aims to provide additional inormation to the existing body of knowledge in one's discipline.
• Applied research - aims to improve a product or a proces to validate existing theories.
• Action research - aims to provide immediate solutions to existing problems on a limited area and on a very particular level.
• Qualitative research & Quantitative research - general types of research
• Qualitative research - deals with the description of a certain phenomenon.
• Quantitative research - deals with the number of the occurences, behavior and/or reaction of the phenomenon being observed.