SW Research

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A systematic search or investigation of a specific topic or problem: involves the gathering of data and information to help clarify or solve a problem or answer a question

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Research

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A qualitative research method involving the systematic study of people in their natural environment to understand their way of life, including how they see and interact with the world around them.

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Ethnographic Research

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Seeks to expand existing knowledge and improve the understanding of particular phenomenon, study or law of nature. It looks at how concepts and processes work and creates a foundation for applied sciences.

ex. How alcohol consumption impacts the brain: how stress levels make people passive-aggressive

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Basic (Pure or Fundamental) Research

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A process of collecting and interpreting data about past events or ideas in order to study possible reasons behind certain events to explain their influence on the events that followed

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Historical Research

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A qualitative method that enables one to study a particular phenomenon or process and discover new theories that are based on the collection and analysis of real-world data

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Grounded Theory

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Characteristic or factor which is presumed to be the “cause” of a certain phenomenon. Sometimes called the “predictor” or explanatory variable

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Independent variable

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Statement that describes the relationship between two or more variables: tentative conclusion or answer to a specific question raised at the beginning of the investigation

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Hypothesis

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Generalization are given first before giving the particulars

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Deductive reasoning

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States that variable A causes the occurdence of variable B. Every time A occurs, B will also occur; but the occurrence will not cause A to occur; sometimes also called causation

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Asymmetrical

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Variable A causes the occurence of variable B and vice versa, sometimes called correlation

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Reciprocal

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Seeks to provide a practical solution to an existing problem. It uses empirical methodologies to collect further data in an area of study.

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Applied Research

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Stated in the negative, e.g. there is no significant difference between variable A and variable B

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Null hypothesis

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Records and analyzes the beliefs, feelings and perception of the audience they’re looking to study in relation to the thing being studied.

Only the audience’s views matter

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Phenomenological research

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Adopts a deductive approach with precise measurements of quantitative data to discover and confirm casual laws in order to predict human behavior. It uses scientific methods and language to investigate and write about human experience.

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Positivist Approach

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A way of perceiving the world flows from a value position; influences choice of theory and model

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Perspective

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A general statement about the real world; essential truth supported by evidence using scientific method; must explain in a provable way why something happens

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Theory

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The presumed “effect” or the phenomenon itself. Sometimes called “outcome” variable

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Dependent variable

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States that every variable A occurs, variable B will also occur. The occurrence of B, however, is not really due to A, but to a third factor. Sometimes called as association

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Symmetrical

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Particular fact / observation are given first before generalization

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Inductive reasoning

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Stated in the affirmative, e.g there is no significant difference between variable A and variable B

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Operational Form

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Presents relationship between different specific concepts that we want to study; concepts used are derived from theoretical framework as such are more specific than the theory; consists of the investigator’s own position on a problem after being exposed to various theories that have bearing on the problem

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Conceptual framework

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A blueprint for action; describes what hapens in practice in a general step-by-step guide

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model

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Self-evident truth based upon a known fact or phenomenon

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Assumption

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Presents a theory which explains why the problems exist; A set of concepts which explains & predicts the occurrence of a certain phenomenon

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Theoretical Framework

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Derived from the conceptual framework, they describe nature and specific operational flow or processes of a specific project or activity

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Operational framework

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Discussion of facts & principles to which the present study is related

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Related Literature

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studies inquiries or investigations already conducted to which present study is related or has similarity

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Related Studies

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Focuses on a relatively new research area or that which has very limited available evidence to be able to test a hypothesis

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Exploratory research

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Describes and interpets what is; focuses on prevailing conditions - how a person, or group behaves or how a thing functions in the present. Interpretation is often combined with comparison and contrast

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Descriptive research

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Used to determine the cause-and-effect relationship of certain phenomena under controlled conditions

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Experimental research

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Some conditions are required to be true experiment is not met. Most of this condition is the inability to randomize group assignments

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Quasi-experiment

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Imposes all random selection steps based on the assumption that random sample & randomly assigning these subjects to groups produce equivalent groups for comparison

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Classical experiment

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Means studies begin with hypothetical explanation or hypothesis that is to be tested in the real world

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Explanatory

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Entails the measurement of some characteristic in a defined sample or group at a given time period

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Cross-sectional survey design

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Participants are exposed to some independent variable followed by repeated measurements through time.

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Longitudinal Study Design

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A type of longitudinal study design

involves drawing a sample of participants from a group of potential participants on different occasions. The pool changes over time

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Trend Study

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A pool of potential participants does not change, but the specific cases selected for study will differ during stages of data collection

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Cohort study

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Same group of participants would be studied over time. In the above example, the same randomly selected men would be studied over time to monitor changes in their attitude towards women`

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Panel study

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Refers to how accurate a test measures what it aims to measure.

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Data Validity

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A test is reliable if it gives the same measurement to the same individuals or groups.

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Data Reliability

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A comprehensive and extensive investigation of an individual, a family, a social group, or a community, for the purposes of identifying causal factors to some abnormality or deficiency and finding and recommending a solution, a treatment, or developmental procedures

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Case study