WHAT IS RESEARCH?

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Research is a

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systematic way of thinking and knowing and has a distinct vocabulary

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research uses

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orderly scientific methods (multiple) to answer questions or solve problems

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thought and action process of the researcher are clearly specified so that they are

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• logical
• understandable
• confirmable
• useful

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research helps provide

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answers about daily practice -validated

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research develops and tests

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theories that form the bases for practice

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research generates relevant theory and knowledge about

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human experience and behavior

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knowledge obtained from research is critical in guiding legislators and regulatory bodies about

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best policies and procedures

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research contributes to the evolution

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of research methods as they answer better questions

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research helps us become more

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crticial consumers

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scientific researcher endeavors to

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• understand
• explain
• predict
• control phenomena

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we go about research in a more

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orderly and systematic fashion

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scientific method involves formal application of

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• systematic

- logical procedures that guide investigation of phenomena of interest

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sources of human knowledge

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• tradition
• authority
• experience
• logical reasoning

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tradition

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knowledge passed down

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authority

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certain title or position have a source of knowledge

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experience

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your own experience

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logical reasoning

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• inductive
• deductive
• transfomative

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inductive reasoning

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• taking individual observation and collectively come up with explanation for what i am seeing
• small pieces of information for 1 general rule

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deductive reasoning

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• taking general principle and applying it to a specific situation
• expect it to work

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transformative reasoning

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taking information observe and doing something to change it

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characteristirc of scientific approach

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• order
• empirical evidence
• genralization

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empirical evidence

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• something that is tangible
• something you can observe objectively have actual data
• physical/behavior

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generalization

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• take whatever found and generalize it

- apply it to other groups

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assumptions of scientific approach

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• nature of reality

- determinism

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nature of reality

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- what you see is real | - everything is objective

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determinism

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always assuming anything they see or do has a cause and effect

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purpose of scientific research

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- description - exploration - explanation - prediction and control

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description

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- describe the world | - what is going on around you what are you observing?

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exploration

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how things are working?

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explanation

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- why things are working? | - develop theories

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prediction and control

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after you develop theory

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a continuum

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- basic - applied - transformative research

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basic

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increasing human knowledge

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applied

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- middle of continuum | - both OT and occupation base practice

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transformative research

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as you gather/learn and apply, that will change the world

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limitations of the scientific method

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- general limitations - moral or ethical issues - human complexity - measurement problems - control problems

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moral or ethical issues

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times where we can't experiment on people because or moral or ethical issues

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human complexity

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- what we do - how we do it - how we choose to do it is different

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measurement problems

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- different things happening in each person's lives | - difficult to measure

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control problems

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can't control problems