What is Research? Flashcards
What is Basic/Pure Research
Aims to solve problems and contribute to theory and knowledge
What is Applied Research?
Helps solve a current problem in a specific circumstance
Empircal Researc
-Observation
-Collecting Data
-planned study
Non- empirical Research
-Re-analysis
-Litreture review
-Comparing studies
Positivism
Genuine knowledge by scientific study
Post-Positvism
A view that we need context and that context free experimental design is insuffiecnt.
Critical thinking
Ideas in relation of belief and bias could be expressed.
Constructivism
Interpretative, has mulitple interpretions of reality.
Epistemology
What consitives valid knowledge and how can we obtain it?
Qualative Research
Seeks to answer questions about why and how people behave in ways they do.
Quantative
Explaining phenomena by collecting numerical data that are analysed using math based methods.
Sample
A subgroup of a population
Reliability
The probability that the research procedure under the same conditions would produce similar results
Validity
Accuracy and the truth of data produced
Triangulation
The use of a variety of source methods to examine and analyse a specific phenomenon for accuracy
