IT 304 Quantitative Research PDF

IT 304 – Quantitative Research dynamics of earthquakes. Research is wrongly used here because in the first place it lacks the Lesson 1 (From YT Video) scientific rigor....

IT 304 – Quantitative Research dynamics of earthquakes. Research is wrongly used here because in the first place it lacks the Lesson 1 (From YT Video) scientific rigor. What is Research? What is Scientific Rigor? Scholars have not agreed on a single objective It is the implementation of the highest standards definition of the term research. and best practices of science. This can be observed in the varying definitions What is Science? of the said term. According to B.R Hergenhahn, Science came According to Oxford Encyclopedic English into existence as a way of answering questions Dictionary, Research is the systematic about nature by examining nature directly rather investigation into the study of materials, sources, than by depending on church dogmas, past etc., in order to establish facts and reach new authorities, superstition, or abstract thought conclusion. processes alone. According to Fredrick Kerlinger, he defines From science's inception, its ultimate authority research as the systematic controlled empirical has been empirical observations that is the direct and critical investigation of hypothetical observation of nature. propositions about presumed relations among natural phenomena. (Kerlinger, Fred N. 1973. According to Hergenhahn. there is more to Foundations of Behavioral Researches. 2nd science than simply observing nature Edition. Holt: Rinehart and Winston) - For observations to be useful they must be According to Paul Leedy, he defines research in organized or categorized in some way and more utilitarian manner. Research is a procedure the ways in which they are similar to or by which we attempt to find systematically and different from other observations must be with the support of demonstrable fact the answer noted to a question or the resolution of a problem. After noting similarities and differences among (Leedy, Paul D. 1989. Practical Research: Planning Observations, many scientists take the additional and Design. London: Collier Macmillan. step of attempting to explain what they have Scholars have come up with a working definition observed. of research: Science as a systematic attempt to rationally - Research is defined as the scientific categorize or explain empirical investigations. investigation of a problem or gap which Karl Popper - famous philosopher who was an aims at the discovery or interpretation of authority in the history of science, argues that new facts, which may lead to a revision or science is a way of testing rigorously the proposed even rejection of accepted theories or laws solutions to a problem. in the light of new facts. Research makes use of the rigorous and questioning techniques of scientific inquiry. Hence, research employs a scientific method. Research is a specific term which necessarily involves a scientific rigor Any type of inquiry that does not involve a scientific rigor cannot be called research in the strict sense of the word such as the mere act of gathering facts and information. Someone may say she wants to go to the library to do further research on the meaning nature and