Variables .2 Flashcards
Researcher’s plan for selecting respondents, research locale and data gathering procedures to answer research questions systematically
Research design
Appropriate to use when the researcher is interested in finding out whether something will work or in problem solving in a local setting
Action research
Used when the researcher’s concern is to understand the nature, characteristics, components or aspects of a situation or phenomenon
Descriptive research
Utilized when the researcher seeks to explain the relationship between two or more variables and predict relationship between and among these factors
Explanatory research
When the researcher is after uncovering data on a phenomenon little is known about
Exploratory research
When a researcher is interested in looking into the significance of relationship or association between two or more characteristics or factors, without necessarily examining into casual reasons underlying them
Correlational research
Appropriate when the researcher plans to assess the impact, effect, result, or outcome of operations, policies and programs
Evaluation research
deemed relevant when the researcher is concerned about generating information relevant to the development and formulation of policy and the assessment of the effect or impact of such policy
Policy research
When the researcher is after observing existing conditions and looking back through the data for plausible causal factors
Ex-post facto or causal-comparative research
When the researcher is attempting solve certain problems arising out of historical context through the gathering and examining relevant data from the past
Historical research
When the researcher is to come up with a holistic description of phenomenon or situation with the use of multiple data collection techniques
Ethnographic research
Begins with an experience or condition and, through the narration of the respondent’s participants of either a shared single incident or shared condition, investigates the effects and perceptions of that experience. “Phenomenologists distinguish phenomena (the perceptions or appearances from the point of view of a human). Simply, the phenomenological method interprets an experience or fact, by listening to the different stories of the participants. The method examines the phenomena through the subjective eyes of the participants
Phenomenological research
