Week 1 Flashcards
What is Research?
has multiple, systemic strategies to generate knowledge about human behaviour, experience and environments
Naturalistic inquiry (qualitative)
interpreting human experience within the context in which the experience occurs
Experimental type (quantitative)
prediction and hypothesis testing
Mixed Method
naturalistic inquiry and experimental type to account for the limitations in each approach
Four basic characteristics of research
• Logical • Understandable • Useful • Confirmable (Acronym is LUUC)
What research is not
- Does not prove a theory or a point of view
- Does not come to a single truth
- Does not create static knowledge
Ten essentials of research
- philosophical
- Frame
- supporting
- theory base
- specific
- design
- boundaries
- Obtain
- conclusions
- Share
5 Thinking Processes
- identify a philosophical foundation
- frame a research problem
- Determine supporting knowledge
- Identify a theory base
- develop a specific question or query
Design Approach
- select a design strategy
Action processes
- set study boundaries
- obtain information
- analyse information and draw conclusions
- share and use research knowledge
What is Ethics?
▪ values and customs of a culture
▪ system of moral principles that guide human action
▪ Ethics in research is about balancing these principles with planning and conducting research
Ethical conduct?
“All human interaction, including the interaction involved in human research, has ethical dimensions. However, ‘ethical conduct’ is more than simply doing the right thing. It involves acting in the right spirit, out of an abiding respect and concern for one’s fellow creatures”.
Human research
conducted with or about people, or their data or tissue.
Involvement of humans through:
- surveys, interviews or focus groups
- psychological, physiological or medical testing or treatment;
- being observed by researchers;
- personal documents or other materials;
- body organs, tissues or fluids or their exhaled breath;
Values and principles of ethical conduct
- Research merit
- Respect
- Justice
- Beneficence
Themes in research ethics
- Risk and benefit
- Consent