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What is pure research?

Exploring the unknown to extend the boundaries of knowledge. Little impact on action, performance or policy decisions.

What is applied research?

Investigation that has immediate practical utility. Done to answer question about specific problems or to make decisions about a course of action or policy.

What is action research?

Done to aid local decision making. E.g. teaching investigating suitability of particular teaching strategy in class.

Types of reasearch based on Approach

Exploratory


Descriptive


Explanatory/Casual Research

What is exploratory research?

Unstructured, informal and use to gain preliminary info about the nature of the issue.


Done when not much is know about the problem.

Methods of exploratory research

Secondary data analysis


Experience surveys


Case studies


Focus groups


Projective techniques


Pilot studies

What is descriptive research?

Involves scenarios where concepts, terms and problems are already known and it wants to describe and measure phenomena. What where who when.

What is Explanatory research?

To describe and measure casuality. To make "if then" statements. Casual relationships determined through true and quasi experiments.

Research based on subject treatment and type of data collected

Qualitative


Quantitative

Characteristics of Qualitative Research

Inductive Inquiry


Understanding social phenomena


A theoretical or Grounded theory


Holistic inquiry


Content specific


Affected by researcher's views


Narrative description

Characteristics of Quantitative Research

Deductive


Relationships, effects, causes


Theory based


Focused on individual variables


Context free


Detached role of researcher


Statistical analysis

Types of qualitative Research

Case study


Ethnograpghy


Phenomenology

What is a case study?

The study of an individual. Captures an environment at a point in time.

What is Ethnography?

The study of human culture.

What is phenomenology?

Study an event from the subjects perspective. Captures feelings, emotions, and experiences.

What is an hypothesis?

Statement of an expected outcome.

When are hypothesis used?

Experimental


Casual comparative


Correlation

What is a non directional hypothesis?

Anticipates a difference but not being able to predict what it is likely to be.

Directional

Anticipating a difference and being able to predict what is.

Purpose of Quantitative

To explain and predict


To confirm and validate


To test theory

Purpose of Qualitative

To describe and explain


To explore and interpret


To build theory

Nature of Quantitative

Focused


Known variables


Established guidelines


Static designs


Context free


Detached view

Nature of Qualitative

Holistic


Unknown variables


Flexible guidelines


Emergent design


Context-bound


Personal view

Methods of data collection in Quantitative

Representative large sample


Standardize instruments

Methods of Qualitative

Informative, small sample


Observations, interviews

Form of reasoning for Quantitative

Deductive

Form of reason for Qualitative

Inductive

What is action research?

Applied research that focuses on finding a solution to a local problem in research.

What is casual comparative approach?

Looks at conditions that have already occured and collects the data to investigate a possible relationship between these conditions.

What is content analysis?

A detailed and systematic examination of the contents of a particular body of material for the purpose of identifying patterns, bias within material.

What is Correlation research?

Statistical investigation of the relationship between 2 or more variables.

What is descriptive or normative survey?

Used to describe incidence, frequency and distribution of certain characteristics of a population.

What is descriptive quantitative?

Involves either identifying the characteristics of an observed,p pre existing phenomenon or exploring possible correlations among two or more phenomena.

What is developmental research?

An observational-descriptive type of research that compares ppl in different age groups(crossectional study) or follows a group over a lengthy period of time.(longitudinal study)

What is experimental study?

A study in which participants are randomly assigned to groups that go through different experimental treatments, followed by observations or measurments to assess the effects of the treatments.

What is ground research theory?

Type of qualitative research aimed at deriving theory through the use of multiple stages of data collection interpretation.

What is historical research?

An attempt to solve certain problems arising out of historical context through gathering and examing data.

What is observational study?

A type of quantitative research which aspect of behaviour is ovserved systematically abd with objectivity.

What is quasi-experimental?

A method similar to experimental research but without random assignments of groups.

What is triangulation?

Use of more than one method of data collection in examining research.

What is validity?

The interpretability and accuracy of research findings.