Lesson 3: Types of Research PDF

LESSON 3 TYPES OF RESEARCH  BASIC APPLIED PREDICTIVE ACTION DESCRIPTIVE QUANTITATIVE QUALITATIVE EXPLANATORY EXPLORATORY CORRELATIONAL 1 - This involves BASIC investigation on basic principles and reasons for...

LESSON 3 TYPES OF RESEARCH  BASIC APPLIED PREDICTIVE ACTION DESCRIPTIVE QUANTITATIVE QUALITATIVE EXPLANATORY EXPLORATORY CORRELATIONAL 1 - This involves BASIC investigation on basic principles and reasons for RESEARCH occurrence of a particular phenomenon. Fundamental/ Pure It is also called theoretical research. 1 - Basic researches BASIC sometimes may not RESEARCH lead to immediate use or application. Fundamental/ Pure - It helps build new frontiers of knowledge. 1 BASIC A study looking at how alcohol consumption impacts the brain. A study to discover the components making up human DNA. A study accessing whether stress levels make people more aggressive. A study looking to see if gender stereotypes lead to depression. 2 - In an applied research, one solves certain problems APPLIED employing well known and accepted theories and RESEARCH principles. experimental researches case studies Finding a solution to an inter-disciplinary immediate problem researches 2 APPLIED A study into the way to improve teacher-learner classroom engagements. A study into the way to improve a school's readiness for its students. A study to build students' interests in Mathematics. 3 -An empirical research concerned with forecasting PREDICTIVE future events or behavior, the assessment of variables RESEARCH at one point in time so as to predict a phenomenon assessed at a later point in time. 3 PREDICTIVE A researcher might collect high school data, such as grades extracurricular activities teacher evaluations advanced courses taken standardized test scores in order to predict such college success measures as grade-point average at graduation, awards received, and likelihood of pursuing further studies. 4 -It balances problem-solving actions implemented in a ACTION collaborative context with data-driven collaborative RESEARCH analysis to understand underlying causes interactive inquiry process -help educators develop practical solutions to address causes quickly and efficiently. 4 ACTION -Structured homework protocols for increasing student achievement. -Developing a system of formative feedback for 8th grade writing. -Using music to stimulate creative writing. A teacher collects the scores of her students and finds out that they got low scores. She then re-teaches the lesson but this time with fun activities and games and gave the same quiz. Turn outs were high scores. Which type of research was done? A teacher collects the scores of her students and finds out that they got low scores. She then re-teaches the lesson but this time with fun activities and games and gave the same quiz. Turn outs were high scores. Which type of research was done? ACTION RESEARCH 5 - beyond the surface level thereby giving a detailed DESCRIPTIVE description of the research subject RESEARCH - Researcher has no explores in-depth problems control over the variables; he can only report what has happened or what is happening 5 DESCRIPTIVE researching the income of the employees in a company, and the relationship with their performance. A survey will be carried out to gather enough data about the income of the employees, then their performance will be evaluated and compared to their income. 6 - uses correlations to study relationships between dimensions or EXPLANATORY characteristics of events, individuals, groups, RESEARCH situations primary goal is to -answers how the parts of a understand or to explain phenomenon are related to relationships each other -asks the “Why” question 6 EXPLANATORY Literature reviews Interviews and focus groups Pilot studies Observations Experiments  1 2 3 4 5 6 EXPLORATORY CORRELATIONAL QUANTITATIVE QUALITATIVE 7 -Involves a literature search or conducting EXPLORATORY focus group interviews RESEARCH -help the researcher’s need for better may test the feasibility of a understanding or may more extensive study determine the best methods to be used in a subsequent study 7 EXPLORATORY brain- storming sessions interviews with experts posting a short survey to a social networking website 8 -The researcher having no control over the variables CORRELATIONAL positive correlation RESEARCH (both variables change in the same direction) negative correlation used to measure the (the variables change in the relationship between 2 opposite direction) variables zero correlation (there is no relationship between the variables) 8 CORRELATIONAL If there are multiple pizza trucks in the area and each one has a different jingle, we would memorize it all and relate the jingle to its pizza truck. This is what correlational research precisely is, establishing a relationship between two variables, “jingle” and “distance of the truck” in this particular example. 9 - measure variables for individual participants based on individual QUANTITATIVE scores. RESEARCH Variables in quantitative studies vary in size, magnitude, duration, or amount. 9 QUANTITATIVE survey conducted to understand the amount of time a doctor takes to tend to a patient when the patient walks into the hospital. 10 - focuses on observing and understanding participants’ behaviors QUALITATIVE and attitudes. RESEARCH Then, researchers write narrative and reports describing the phenomena under study. 10 QUALITATIVE diary accounts in-depth interviews documents focus groups case study research, and ethnography QUESTIONS?