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    This document defines research and outlines its key characteristics and importance. It begins by explaining that research involves systematically finding answers to questions through an empirical and scientific process. It then describes the typical steps in research as understanding the problem, reviewing literature, collecting and analyzing data, and drawing conclusions. The document highlights five main characteristics of research: it should be systematic, objective, feasible, empirical, and clear. It provides an example of research being conducted at a car company to address complaints. Finally, it discusses the importance of research in providing scientific basis for practices, continuous development, assessing effectiveness, solving problems, impacting decision-making, and advancing qualifications. The overall goals of research are to produce credible evidence, establish professional ability,

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    This document defines research and outlines its key characteristics and importance. It begins by explaining that research involves systematically finding answers to questions through an empirical and scientific process. It then describes the typical steps in research as understanding the problem, reviewing literature, collecting and analyzing data, and drawing conclusions. The document highlights five main characteristics of research: it should be systematic, objective, feasible, empirical, and clear. It provides an example of research being conducted at a car company to address complaints. Finally, it discusses the importance of research in providing scientific basis for practices, continuous development, assessing effectiveness, solving problems, impacting decision-making, and advancing qualifications. The overall goals of research are to produce credible evidence, establish professional ability,

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    This document defines research and outlines its key characteristics and importance. It begins by explaining that research involves systematically finding answers to questions through an empirical and scientific process. It then describes the typical steps in research as understanding the problem, reviewing literature, collecting and analyzing data, and drawing conclusions. The document highlights five main characteristics of research: it should be systematic, objective, feasible, empirical, and clear. It provides an example of research being conducted at a car company to address complaints. Finally, it discusses the importance of research in providing scientific basis for practices, continuous development, assessing effectiveness, solving problems, impacting decision-making, and advancing qualifications. The overall goals of research are to produce credible evidence, establish professional ability,

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    WHAT IS

    RESEARCH?
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    ✔ Research means finding answers to the
    questions.
    ✔ It is a systematic search for truth.
    ✔ Through research, new and original information,
    ideas about the world we live in, are obtained.
    ✔ Research is search for knowledge.
    ✔ Research is defined as a scientific and
    systematic search for information on a specific
    topic.
    These are the steps:
    1. Understanding the nature of problem
    to be studied and identifying the related
    area of knowledge.

    2. Reviewing literature to understand


    how others have approached or dealt with
    the problem.
    These are the steps:
    3. Collecting data in an organized and
    controlled manner so as to arrive at
    valid decisions.
    4. Analyzing data appropriate to the
    problem.
    5. Drawing conclusions and making
    generalizations
    Characteristics of
    Research
    CHARACTERISTICS
    OF RESEARCH:
    1. The research should be systematic.
    There is a macro and micro system that is
    being followed in research writing.

    2. The research should be objective.


    Results must never be based from biases and
    subjective opinions must not be used in
    analyzing data.

    3. The research should be feasible.


    Problems to be studied must be convenient and
    attainable in the chosen setting.
    CHARACTERISTICS
    OF RESEARCH:
    4. The research should be empirical.
    There should be supporting pieces of evidences
    and details for every variables used in the
    study. References and citations must be
    included.

    5. The research should be clear.


    The variables being studied should be explained
    by the researcher in a direct and concise
    manner.
    Consider the following case as an
    example of research.
    1. A general manager of a car producing company was concerned with the complaints received from the
    car users that the car they produce have some problems with sound at the dash board and the rear
    passenger seat after few thousand kilometers of driving.
    2. He obtained information from the company workers to identify the various factors influencing the
    problem.
    3. He then formulated the problem and generated guesses (hypotheses).
    4. He constructed a checklist and obtained requisite information from a representative sample of cars.
    5. He analyzed the collected data, interpreted the results in the light of his hypotheses and reached
    conclusions.
    Meet Albert, the Researcher.

    Roles of a Researcher
    He is a:
    ☑ Principal Investigator
    ☑ Member of a research team
    ☑ Identifier of research problems
    ☑ User of research findings
    ☑ Client advocate
    ☑ Subject, participant or respondent
    IMPORTANCE
    OF RESEARCH
    ✔ Research provides a scientific basis for any practice or
    methodology in any field or discipline.
    Example: A new drug must first be tested to determine its
    efficacy in curing sickness before it can actually be
    prescribed.
    ✔ Research is undertaken for continuous development and
    further productivity in any field.
    Example: The advancement of technology in the field of
    education.
    ✔ Research helps develop tools for assessing
    effectiveness of any practice and operations.
    Example: Use of pyschological tests, intelligence quotient
    tests and pychological assessments
    ✔ Research provides solutions to problems concerning
    almost all issues encountered in different areas of work.
    Example: Tardiness of employees are being investigated
    and given solution so that the problem can be resolved.
    ✔ Research impacts decision making.
    Example: For a teacher to changer his/her teaching methodology
    for the first period class, he/she must conduct a study
    considering the time, academic standing of students and other
    factors.
    ✔ Research develops and evaluates alternative approaches to
    educational aspects of any discipline.
    Example: Research can be used to determine whether a lecturer
    is a better method that experiment in teaching science.
    ✔ Research aims to advance the personal and professional
    qualifications of a practitioner.
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