Research concepts

Concerns knowledge construction; asks what constitutes knowledge and how.

• Focus

• Fundament

• Hypothesis

• Epistemology

Assumption of something possible or impossible to draw a consequence from it.

• Hypothesis

• Methodology

• Model

• Qualitative

Relating to the quality of an experience or situation rather than to facts that can be measured.

• Technique

• Qualitative

• Theory

• Epistemology

It is a view in the philosophy of science that maintains that scientific knowledge is constructed by the scientific community.

• Methodology

• Model

• Constructivism

• Ontology

A typical example or pattern of something.

• Focus

• Theory

• Paradigm

• Science

Speculative knowledge considered independently of any application.

• Theory

• Technique

• Positivist

• Fundament

A representative part of a single item from a larger whole or group especially when presented for inspection or shown as evidence of quality.

• Quantitative

• Model

• Focus

• Sample

The whole cosmic system of matter and energy of which earth, and therefore the human race is a part.

• Racionalist

• Naturalist

• Universe

• Technique

Something such as an object, plan, or set of rules that is used to show what something else is like or how it works.

• Focus

• Theory

• Model

• Science

A theory or analysis of how research does and should proceed.

• Qualitative

• Methodology

• Theory

• Constructivism