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Research Methods and Research Methodology Lecturer-Dr - Hla Myint Ashin Dhammapiya 18/DCUM/018

Research methods refer to the techniques used to collect and analyze data during a research project, such as surveys, interviews, and observations. Research methodology is the overarching framework that guides the research process and ensures conclusions are valid. It involves analyzing the research methods used and justifying their appropriateness for addressing the problem. Key differences are that research methods are the tools used to conduct research, while research methodology provides the theoretical basis for how and why those methods were chosen.

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Research Methods and Research Methodology Lecturer-Dr - Hla Myint Ashin Dhammapiya 18/DCUM/018

Research methods refer to the techniques used to collect and analyze data during a research project, such as surveys, interviews, and observations. Research methodology is the overarching framework that guides the research process and ensures conclusions are valid. It involves analyzing the research methods used and justifying their appropriateness for addressing the problem. Key differences are that research methods are the tools used to conduct research, while research methodology provides the theoretical basis for how and why those methods were chosen.

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Research methods and Research Methodology

Lecturer-Dr.Hla Myint

Ashin Dhammapiya 18/DCUM/018

Research can be understood as the systematic and rigorous search for appropriate
information on a specific subject. It involves enunciation of the problem, developing a
hypothesis, collecting and analyzing data, and drawing conclusions, based on the facts and data
collected. And to do so, the researcher uses research methods, during the course of conducting
research.

The research methods are often confused with research methodology, which implies the
scientific analysis of the research methods, so as to find a solution to the problem at hand. Hence,
it seems apt to clarify the differences between research method and research methodology.

Research methods

Research method pertains to all those methods, which a researcher employs to undertake
research process, to solve the given problem. The techniques and procedure that are applied
during the course of studying research problem are known as the research method. It
encompasses both qualitative and quantitative method of performing research operations, such as
survey, case study, interview, questionnaire, observation, etc.

These are the approaches, which help in collecting data and conducting research, in order
to achieve specific objectives such as theory testing or development. All the instruments and
behavior, used at various levels of the research activity such as making observations, data
collection, data processing, drawing inferences, decision making, etc. are included in it.

Research methods can be put into the following three groups:

1. In the first group we include those methods which are concerned with the collection of
data. These methods will be used where the data already available are not sufficient to
arrive at the required solutions;
2. The second group consists of those statistical techniques which are used for establishing
relationships between the data and the unknowns;
3. The third group consists of those methods which are used to evaluate the accuracy of the
results obtained.

Research methods falling in the above stated last two groups are generally taken as the
analytical tools of research.

Research Methodology

Research methodology is a way to systematically solve the research problem. It may be


understood as a science of studying how research is done scientifically. It refers to the rigorous
analysis of the methods applied in the stream of research, to ensure that the conclusions drawn
are valid, reliable and credible too.

The researcher takes an overview of various steps that are chosen by him in
understanding the problem at hand, along with the logic behind the methods employed by the
researcher during study. It also clarifies the reason for using a particular method or technique,
and not others, so that the results obtained can be assessed either by the researcher himself or any
other party.

In conclusion, the scope of research methodology is wider than that of research method,
as the latter is the part of the former. For understanding the research problem thoroughly, the
researcher should know the research methodology along with the methods.

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