Importance And Importance Of Research

Exploring Research

1 SAY HELLO TO RESEARCH!

Research is very much about searching and finding the “truth” in relation to the Questions the researchers are investigating the answers to. The “truth” might not answer the questions asked but will most likely bring about new questions need to be answered. At the end of the day the new information gathered by the researchers will add greatly to the existing body of information collected by other researchers that came before.

During this research module students will learn and use some of the below tools to do more research

• Develop a complete understanding of the research process from start to end.

• Preparing the student to conduct his/her own research.

• Learn how to judge the quality and integrity

• Design your research studies that answers the questions that you want answered.

• Write the type of research proposal and report that puts you in command and control of the content of the research as well as the way in which the research should be done.

2 THE ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH

Research is a process through which new knowledge is discovered. A theory, such as a theory of motivation, or development, or learning, for example, helps us to organize this new information into a coherent body, a set of related ideas that explain events that have occurred and predict events that may happen.

High-quality research is characterized by many different attributes, many of which tend to be related to one another and also tend to overlap. High-quality research

• is based on the work of others, looking into other peoples work and research to provide you with a basis and starting point for forming the subject of your research and how you will tackle and conduct your research work while not plagiarising others research and

These can range from simple factors such as age, height etc to more complex measures like family communication patterns etc.

The third step is “Formulating a Hypothesis” A hypothesis is a question in a testable form, it results when the questions are transformed into statements that express the relationship between the variables.

The fourth step is “Collecting Relevant information” this happens after you have formulated your hypothesis. The collection of information is very important as it will either prove or refute your hypothesis. Care should be taken to not influence the collected information and let what transpires from the testing stand.

The fifth step is “Testing the Hypothesis” which uses a set of tools called inferential statistics to allow researchers to separate the effects of an isolated factor from differences between groups that might be owing something to another factor or to nothing