RESEARCH REVIEWER

How you, the researcher, view the world and the assumptions

that you make about the nature of the world and of reality.

• Epistemology

• Ontology

• Methodology

• Methods and techniques

What you actually do in order to collect your

data and carry out your investigations.

• Methods and techniques.

• Methodology.

• Epistemology.

• Ontology.

The assumptions that you make about the best way of

investigating the world and about reality.

• Ontology.

• Epistemology.

• Methodology.

• Methods and techniques.

tend to take a social constructionist view. They start with

questions.

• Social Constructionists

• Realists

• Relativists

• Positivists

tend to use a positivist epistemology. They start with

hypotheses.

• Social Constructionists

• Realists

• Relativists

• Positivists -

believes that the best way to investigate the world is through

objective methods, such as observations.

• Positivists

• Social Constructionists

• Realists

• Relativists

approaches tend to draw on qualitative sources

of data, and positivist approaches on quantitative data.

• Positivists

• Realists

• Relativists

• Social constructionist

is published by someone else, usually a public body or

company, although it may also consist of archive material such as

historical records.

• Secondary Data

• Primary Data

gathered by the researcher themselves, whether through

surveys, interviews, or by counting atoms in a laboratory.

• Primary Data

• Secondary Data

Standards of right and

wrong behavior

• Interpretation and Report Writing

• Honesty

• Research Ethics

• Ethics