Technical Terms used in Research

It is an art of Scientific Investigation. A careful and detailed study into a specific problem, concern, or issue using a scientific method.

• Findings

• Research

• Review

• Analysis

Why is research important?

• To add work to a person's daily life.

• To guess the answer about anything.

• To inform action, to prove a theory, and contribute to developing knowledge in a field or study.

• No reason at all.

A short summary of your completed research. It should be short and concise. It is intended to describe your work without going into detail.

• Answer

• Question

• Abstract

• Analysis

It is the next part after the Title and the Abstract. The introductory part that leads the reader from a general subject area to a particular topic of inquiry.

• Title

• Abstract

• Hypothesis

• Introduction

It provides an overview of sources you have explored including books, scholarly articles, and any other sources relevant to a particular issue, area of research, or theory.

• Literature Review

• Resources

• Methodology

• Abstract

It is a statement of expectation or prediction that will be tested by research. It is a researcher's intellectual guess.

• Analysis

• Hypothesis

• Abstract

• Literature Review

A systematic method to resolve a research problem through data gathering using various techniques, providing an interpretation of the data gathered, and drawing conclusions about the research data.

• Abstract

• Statistics

• Methodology

• Findings

It is the entire group that you want to draw conclusions about. In research, it doesn't always refer to people.

• Findings

• Hypothesis

• Population

• Sample

A smaller part or sub-group of the population. A specific group within a population that you will collect data from. They are the ones who will answer surveys or interviews.

• Community

• People

• Mini population

• Sample

Any factor or condition that can be manipulated, controlled for, or measured in an experiment.

• Variable

• Data

• Statistics

• Findings