Research Methods and Design Chapter 1
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What is one of the main aims of research?

  • To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to achieve new insights into it (correct)
  • To apply scientific procedures to discover answers to questions
  • To collect, organize, and evaluate data; make deductions and reach conclusions
  • To manipulate things, concepts, or symbols for the purpose of generalizing to extend, correct, or verify knowledge
  • According to Clifford Woody, what does research comprise?

  • Defining and redefining problems, formulating hypothesis or suggested solutions; collecting, organizing and evaluating data; making deductions and reaching conclusions; and at last carefully testing the conclusions to determine whether they fit the formulating hypothesis (correct)
  • To discover answers to questions through the application of scientific procedures
  • The manipulation of things, concepts, or symbols for the purpose of generalizing to extend, correct, or verify knowledge
  • To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to achieve new insights into it
  • How do D. Steiner and M. Stephenson define research?

  • To discover answers to questions through the application of scientific procedures
  • To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to achieve new insights into it
  • Defining and redefining problems, formulating hypothesis or suggested solutions; collecting, organizing and evaluating data; making deductions and reaching conclusions; and at last carefully testing the conclusions to determine whether they fit the formulating hypothesis
  • The manipulation of things, concepts, or symbols for the purpose of generalizing to extend, correct, or verify knowledge (correct)
  • What do we term studies aimed at gaining familiarity with a phenomenon or achieving new insights into it?

    <p>Exploratory or formulative research studies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of research according to the text?

    <p>To discover answers to questions through the application of scientific procedures</p> Signup and view all the answers

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