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Meaning of Research

Research is defined in 3 sentences: Research is a systematic, careful investigation conducted to discover and develop new facts or truths about a topic through academic search and experimentation. It involves manipulating concepts and data to generate new knowledge and verify existing understandings. The main objectives of research are to gain insights, describe characteristics, determine associations, and test hypotheses.

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Meaning of Research

Research is defined in 3 sentences: Research is a systematic, careful investigation conducted to discover and develop new facts or truths about a topic through academic search and experimentation. It involves manipulating concepts and data to generate new knowledge and verify existing understandings. The main objectives of research are to gain insights, describe characteristics, determine associations, and test hypotheses.

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Meaning of Research

Research is a scientific and systematic search for various information about a specific
topic. It is just like a search for truth and knowledge. The English Dictionary meaning of
Research is “a careful investigation or inquiry especially through search for new facts in
any branch of knowledge.” information about a subject can be collected by deliberate
effort and it is presented in a new form after analyzing thoroughly in research work.
Research is an academic activity. It is a movement from the known to the unknown,
which may be called a discovery. Different definitions of research are given by the
experts.

According to Redman and Mory, “Research is a systematized effort to gain new


knowledge.”

1. Slesinger and M Stephenson define research as, “the manipulation of things,


concepts or symbols for the purpose of generalizing to extend correct or verify
knowledge whether that knowledge aids in construction of theory or in the practice of an
art ”

According to P.M. Cook, “Research is an honest, exhaustive, intelligent searching for


facts and their meanings or implications with reference to a given problem.”

J.M. Francis Rumel defines, “Research is an endeavour to discover, develop and verify


knowledge.”

Clifford Woody, defines “Research is a careful enquiry or examination in seeking facts


or principles a diligent investigation to ascertain something.”

Objectives of Research
The main purpose of research is to discover answers to the meaningful questions
through scientific procedures and systematic attempt. The hidden truths which are not
discovered yet can easily come to light by research.

The main objectives of Research are

1. To gain familiarity or to achieve new insights into a phenomenon. This is known


as Exploratory or Formularize Research studies.
2. To describe the accurate characteristics of a particular individual, situation or a
group. This is known as Descriptive Research studies.
3. To determine the frequency with which something occurs or with which it is
associated with other things. This is known as Diagnostic Research studies.
4. To test a hypothesis of a casual relationship between variables. Such studies are
known as Hypothesis-testing Research studies.
Characteristics of Research
1. Research is directed towards the solution of a problem.
2. Research gathers new knowledge or data from primary sources.
3. Research is based upon observable experience or experimental evidence.
4. Research is logical and objective, applying every possible test to verify the data
collected and the procedures employed.
5. Research is expert, systematic and accurate investigation.
6. Research demands accurate observation and description.
7. Research requires patience and courage. The researcher should courageously
face the unpleasant consequences of his finding if any.
8. Research is highly purposive. It deals with a significant problem which must be
solved.
9. Research is carefully recorded and reported. Everything must be carefully
defined and described in detail.
10. Research activity is characterized by carefully designed procedures which are to
be analyzed thoroughly.

Research Methods
All those methods which are used by the researcher during the course of studying his
research problems are called as Research Methods. Methods of research may be
classified from different points of view.

These are:

1. The fields to which applied-Education, Philosophy, Psychology.


2. Purpose-Description, Prediction. Determination of status and causes.
3. Place where it is to be conducted-in the field or in the laboratory.
4. Application-Pure research or applied research
5. Data gathering devices employed-Testing, rating scales, questionnaires etc.
6. Character of the data collected-Objective, Subjective, Quantitative, and
Qualitative.
7. Forms of thinking-Deductive and Inductive.
8. Control of factors-Controlled and Uncontrolled.

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