All About Research

What is Research?

• Careful, systematic, patient study and investigation in some field of knowledge, undertaken to discover or establish facts and principle
• Investigate systematically
• A parameter that measures the central location of the distribution of a random variable
• The collecting of information about a particular subject

What are the aims of a research?

• Improves practice
• Increases our workload
• Informs policy debates
• Helps to solve problems
• Expands our knowledge base

What are the 3 steps of research? Answer Format: x, y, z

(a)  

What are the characteristics of QUANTITATIVE research method?

• Describing a research problem through a description of trends or a need for an explanation of the relationships among variables.
• Providing a major role for the literature through suggesting the research questions to be asked and justifying the research problem and creating a need for the direction (purpose statement and research questions or hypotheses) of the study.
• Creating purpose statements, research questions, and hypotheses that are specific, narrow, measurable and observable.
• Having the literature review plays a minor role but justify the problem

What are the characteristics of QUALITATIVE research method?

• Analysing the data for description and themes using text analysis and interpreting the larger meaning of the findings.
• Collecting data based on words from a small number of individuals so that the participants' views are obtained.
• Exploring a problem and developing a detailed understanding of a central phenomenon.
• Having the literature review plays a minor role but justify the problem

What are the ethics of research?

• Honesty, Objectivity, Integrity, Carefulness, Openness, Respect for intellectual property, Confidentiality, Human subjects protection
• Honesty, Objectivity, Intelligence, Carefulness, Openness, Respect for intellectual property, Confidentiality, Human subjects protection
• Honesty, Objectivity, Integrity, Carefulness, Benefit, Respect for intellectual property, Confidentiality, Human subjects protection

What’s the importance of ethics of research?

• Promotes the aims of research, moral and social values
• Freedom from exploitation
• To ensure we feel good about ourselves

What is the research process?

• Identifying a research problem, Specifying a purpose for research, Reviewing literature, Collecting data, Analysing and Interpreting data, Reporting and Evaluating research
• Identifying a research problem, Reviewing literature, Collecting data, Specifying a purpose for research, Analysing and Interpreting data, Reporting and Evaluating research
• Identifying a research problem, Reviewing literature, Specifying a purpose for research, Collecting data, Analysing and Interpreting data, Reporting and Evaluating research

How is a research paper structured?

• Title, Abstract, Name of Authors & Affiliations, Introduction, Method, Literature Review, Findings & Discussion, Conclusion, References
• Title, Name of Authors & Affiliations, Abstract, Introduction, Literature Review, Findings & Discussion, Method, Conclusion, References
• Title, Name of Authors & Affiliations, Abstract, Introduction, Literature Review, Method, Findings & Discussion, References, Conclusion
• Title, Name of Authors & Affiliations, Abstract, Introduction, Literature Review, Method, Findings & Discussion, Conclusion, References

What should be included in the title of a research question? Answer format: x + y

(a)