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INTRODUCTION

TO RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY

DR. ANA KUMAR

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Research?

➢ A careful investigation for new facts in any


branch of knowledge

➢ Redman and Mory: Research is a systematic


effort to gain new knowledge
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Research?
 Clifford Woody: Research-

 defining and redefining problems, formulating


hypothesis/objectives;

 collecting, organizing and evaluating data;

 making deductions and reaching


conclusions;

 testing the conclusions to determine whether


they fit the formulating hypothesis/objectives
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Why do research?
➢ Desire to get a research degree along with its
consequential benefits
➢ Desire to face the challenge in solving the
unsolved problems
➢ Desire to get intellectual joy of doing some
creative work
➢ Desire to be of service to society
➢ Desire to get respectability
➢ Directives of government, employment conditions
etc.
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Why do research?...

 Validate intuition

 Improve methods

 Demands of the Job

 For publication/patent
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Choose a subject

 Based on an idea

 Based on your experience

 Based on your reading

 Originality
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The important features of a research


design
➢ A plan
Specify the sources & types of information
relevant to the research problem
➢ A strategy
Which approach will be used for
gathering and analyzing the data
➢ The time and budgets
Most studies are done under these two
constraints
CHARACTERISTICS OF RESEARCH

➢Systematic- All steps must be inter


related- one to another
➢Logical- Agreeing with the
principles of logic
➢Empirical-Conclusions should be
based on evidences/observations
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CHARACTERISTICS OF RESEARCH…
➢ Objectivity-It must answer the
research questions
➢ Replicable- reproducible
➢ Transmittable
➢ Quality control- Accurate
measurements
➢ All well designed and conducted
research has potential application
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Define Your objectives


 Try to keep these simple

 The more variables the more difficult

 Use the opportunity

 Get help at this stage


 Senior colleagues

 Experienced researchers
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Literature search
 Check to see if your idea is original
 Get articles
 Read articles and their references
 Most of these will be vital when writing up
reports
 Find gap areas
 Find obsolete measurements and results
 Define objectives of the study
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Steps involved in a research


 Choose a subject
 Literature survey
 Defining and formulation of specific
objectives
 Prepare Synopsis
 Procuring of suitable apparatus/materials
 Design of experimental set up
 Preliminary experiments
 Execution of the project
 Accurate measurements/data collection
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Steps involved in a research…

 Data analysis and error compounding


 Hypothesis testing and verification
 Results and discussion
 Generalization, interpretation and drawing
conclusions
 Preparation of the project report or writing thesis
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The Process of Research

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Research article writing


 Find suitable/specified  Novelty statements
journals  Introduction
 Get copy of Instructions to  Materials and methods
authors  Results and discussion
 Prepare article as per  Conclusions
instructions
 Acknowledgements
 Select suitable titles
 References
 Authors and affiliations
 Abstract
 Highlights
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Authorship/ethics
 All authors should directly involved in
entire study
 Article is free from plagiarism
 Should follow ethics
A Research Report
A Research Report generally include:

 Introduction and Statement of problem


 Review of relevant literature
 Statement of hypothesis or research objectives
 Theoretical resume
 Description of research design
 Description Experimental design
 Description of measurement and data analysis
 Error compounding
 Presentation of Results
 Discussion
 Conclusion, limitations, and implications
 Suggestions for future work
 Acknowledgements
 References cited
 Appendices
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Types of research
1. Application- Pure and Applied Research
Applied- Finding solutions for immediate problems
facing a society/industry
Pure- Concerned with generalization and
formulation of a theory

2. Inquiry Mode- Quantitative and qualitative


Quantitatative- Measurements of quantity or amount
Qualitative- Concerned with qualitative phenomena
(reasons for human behavior)
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Research Studies
 Based on research objectives:

❖ Exploratory or formulative research- To


gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to
achieve new insights into it
❖ descriptive research- To study accurately
the characteristics of a particular
individual, situation or a group-includes
survey
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Research Studies
❖ Diagnostic research- To determine the
frequency with which something occurs or
with which it is associated with something
else
❖ hypothesis-testing research- To test a
hypothesis of a causal relationship
between variables
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