Saturday, September 27, 2014

Second time meet up!( Reflection )

I've learnt a lot of things in our class today. Basically it was about the types of research and about the good characteristics of research questions.

Research can be describe as searching for and gathering information which to answer a particular or problem. When we have some queries about something then we made some information searching  and information gathering by following a few process until we finally found the answer for the questions, it can be called a research.
There are few types of research conducted :

  1. Experimental research - 
  2. Correlational research - to investigate the relationship among variables ( cause & effect)
  3. Causal - comparative research - comparing groups to determine causes or consequences of the group members.
  4. Survey research - interview, questionnaires, test
  5. Ethnographic research - documenting or portraying the everyday experience of people
  6. Historical research - study some aspect from the past

The important thing is to set the research question. By stating the research questions, we will be able to know the type of research to be done. But there are few characteristic in order to set the best research questions :
  1. feasible - possible to be done and there are available source to do the investigation
  2. clear - can be understand and can be interpreted by others 
  3. significant - worth to be investigate
  4. ethical - will not harm to others

I know that I might find some trouble in creating my research questions. But nevermind, atleast I have learnt a little bit about it. Let's see how it goes!

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