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What is Research?
Careful, critical, disciplined inquiry, varying in technique and method according to the nature and conditions of the problem identified, directed toward the clarification or resolution of a problem. (Good, p. 464) The process of gathering data or information to solve a particular or specific problem in a scientific manner. (Manuel and Medel, p. 5) A systematic study or investigation of something for the purpose of answering questions posed by the researcher. (Cited by Sanchez, p. 2)
Comprehensive Definition
A purposive, systematic and scientific process of gathering, analyzing, classifying, organizing, presenting and interpreting data for the solution of a problem, for prediction, for invention, for the discovery of truth, or for the expansion or verification of existing knowledge, all for the preservation and improvement of the quality of human life.
The purpose of research is to serve man. The goal of research is the good life.
Specific Purposes
To discover new facts about known phenomena. To find answers to problems which are only partially solved by existing methods. Improve existing techniques and develop new instruments or products. To discover previously unrecognized substances or elements. Discover pathways of action of known substances and elements. To order related, valid generalizations into systematized science.
Specific Purposes
To provide basis for decision-making in business, industry, education, government, and in other undertakings. To satisfy the researchers curiosity. To find answers to queries by means of scientific methods. To acquire a better and deeper understanding about one phenomenon. To expand or verify existing knowledge.
Specific Purposes
To improve educational practices for raising the quality of school products. To promote health and prolong life. To provide man with more of his basic needs. To make work, travel, communication faster, easier, and more comfortable.
2. According to goal:
a. Basic or pure research b. Applied research
4. According to scope:
a. Action research
7. Illogical reasoning attributing something to another without any logical basis. 8. Ego-involvement in understanding giving an explanation when one finds himself in an unfavorable situation. 9. Mystifiction attributing to supernatural power the phenomena that cannot be understood. 10. To err is human an attitude that admits the fallability of man. 11. Dogmatism an unwritten policy of institutions or governments prohibiting the study of topics contrary to what is established.