An approach you can use to solve a research problem.

TYPES OF RESEARCH DESIGNS

Exploring and understanding the meaning individuals or groups ascribe to a social or human problem.

Testing objective theories by examining the relationship among variable.

An approach to inquiry that combines both qualitative and quantitative forms.

Uses numbers in stating generalizations about a given problem or inquiry in contrast to qualitative research that hardly used statistical treatment in stating generalizations.

Makes you focus your mind on specific things by means of statistics that involve collection and study of numerical data.

A quantitative research requires much larger numbers of respondents than qualitative research.

Quantitative research design is the most reliable and valid way of concluding results, giving way to a new hypothesis or to disproving the hypothesis.

Qualitative research refers to research investigations of the quality of relationships, activities, situations, or materials.

Qualitative and quantitative research designs cannot be combined

Use numbers in stating generalizations about a given problem or inquiry in contrast to qualitative research designs that hardly use statistical treatment in stating generalizations.

Is a study that strictly adheres to a scientific research design. It includes a hypothesis, a variable that can be manipulated by the researcher, and a variables that can be measured, calculated and compare. Most importantly, experimental research is completed in a controlled environment.

Is the label given to a study when a researcher cannot controlz manipulate or alter the predictor variable or subjects, but instead, relies on interpretation, observation or interactions to come to a conclusion.

Usually descriptive or correlational, which means that you are either describing a situation or phenomenon simply as it stands, or you are describing a relationship between two or more variables, all without any interference from the researcher.

A type of experimental design where the researcher randomly assigns test units and treatments to the experimental groups.

Involves the manipulation of an independent variable without the random assignment of participants to conditions or orders of conditions.

The simplest form of research design. In a pre-experiment either a single group or multiple groups are observed subsequent to some agent or treatment presumed to cause change.

Used when the researcher intends to provide a quantitative or numeric description of trends, attitudes or opinions of a population by studying a sample of that population.

A type of non-experimental research method, in which a researcher measures two variablesz understands and assesses the statistical relationship between them with no influence from any extraneous variable.

Involves comparing and contrasting two or more samples of study subjects on one or more variables, often at a single point of time.

Seeks to assess or judge in some way, providing information about something other than might be gleaned in mere observation or investigation of relationship.

This allows the researcher to control the situation. In doing so, it allows the researcher to answer the question, "What causes something to occur?" this kind of research allows the researcher to identify cause and effect relationships between variables and to distinguish placebo effects from treatment effefts. Further, this research design supports the ability to limit alternative explanations and to infer direct causal relationships in the study; the approach provides the highest degree level of evidence for single studies.

In this kind of design, the researcher observes the phenomena as they occur naturally and no external variables are introduced. In this research design, the variables are not deliberately manipulated nor is the setting controlled. Researchers cokect data without making changes or introducing treatments. This may also called as DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH DESIGN because it is only one under ______. It's main purpose is to observe, describe and document aspects of a situation as it naturally occurs and sometimes to serve as a starting point for hypothesis generation or theory development.

Effectiveness of Euphorbia Plant as Mosquito Repellant

Descriptive Study on the Used of Student Service the University

Impact of Blendid Learning in Students Enrolled in English I

Use of Aloe Vera as Moisturizung Shampoo

Effects of Coaching on the Academic Performance of Grade XII Students in Mathematics

Results of a Prescribed Daily Diet on the Sugar Count of Diabetic Patients

Banana Peel as Alternative Vinegar

Impact of Cooperative Stores on a Selected Barangay

Correlation of Admission Test Results of High School Graduates under ALS and those under the Regular DEPED System of Schooling

Relationship of Chosen Academic Track to the Academic Performance of SHS Students

Those that the researcher chooses to study in order to assess their possible effects on one or more other variables.

Presumed to affect (at least partly cause) or somehow influence at least one other variable.

The variable that the independent variable is presumed to affect is called a ___.

In common sense terms, the ____ "depends on" what the independent variable does to it, how it affects it.

A characteristic of an individual or organization that can be observed and measured; it can vary among people of organizations and studies

Those that cause, influence, or affect outcomes. They are invariably called treatment, manipulatedz antecedent or predictor variables.

This that show the effects or results or outcomes of the influence of the independent variable.

Those that are in-between the independent and dependent variables, that us, showing the effects of the independent variable on the dependent variable.

Those that are measured in a study because they potentially influence the dependent variable, using statistical procedures like analysis or covariance to control these variable.

Those that are not actually measured but they exist. Researchers comment on the influence of confounding variables, after the study has been completed because those variables may have operated to explain the relationships between the independent and dependent variables.

It is the gateway to the contents of a scientific article. It is usually the first part of a manuscript that the editos and reviewers read. After publication, it is the first (and many a times, also the only) part of an article that readers see.

An important part of the article. It condenses article content in a few words and captures reader's attention. A good ___ for a research article is the one which, on its own, is able to introduce the research work to the fullest extent, but in a conscise manner. Writing scientific ___ that are informative and attractive is a challenging task.

A very essential component of a research paper because it serves four things. First, it predicts content. Second, it catches the reader's interest. Third, it reveals the nature or genre of the manuscript. Fourth, it contains keywords that will make it easy to access by a computer search.

____ supports this by accentuating that a research paper title condenses the manuscript's content in a few words and captures reader's attention.

Titles are typically categorized into four types:

Most titles are "____" capturing the main theme of the paper (e.g. Using short stories to develop learner's writing competence).

Also called hanging titles, are those made using a colon (e.g. The use of short stories to develop writing competence: student's perception).

Apt to be longer and accentuate the outcome of the study, for example: "Blendid Learning implementation in essentially not a matter of following a trend but a necessity".

Generally aimed to catch the reader's attention, e.g., "is blended learning implementation merely a matter of following a trend or a necessity?"

A good title should.

A product of real world observations, dilemmas, wide reading, selective viewing (television programs, films, documentaries, videos, etc.) meaningful interactions with significant others, and deep reflection.

The research problem or inquiry in capsule form. Great care must be taken in the formulation of the research title. It must clearly reflect the topic of investigation and it mut be original, clear, concise, or specific.

Techniques in Narrowing down a broad topic

Here are some things to consider in choosing a topic:

You will be spending a lot of time learning about the subject, so it should be something that you want to know more about.

Take time to read some of the information out there in the topic, and to try out different searchs.

Explore the library's resources to see what kind of results you get. If the topic is too big, you may need to narrow it down; it is is too specific, you mag need to expand your search.

A internet test search willhelp to determine how much information is available on your topic.

Is too broad to be manageable when you find that you have too many different z and oftentimes conflicting or only remotely related, ideas about how to investigate the research problem.

Some strategies to help narrow your topic:

Choose one lens through which to view the research problem, or look at just one facet of it (e.g., rather than studying the role of food in South Asian religious rituals, study the role of food in Hindu ceremonies, or, the role of one particular type of food among several religions).

Determine if your initial variable or unit of analysis can be broken into smaller parts, which can then be analyzed more precisely (e.g., a study of tobacco use among adolescents can focus on just chewing tobacco rather than all forms of usage or, rather than adolescents in general, focus on female adolescents in a certain age range who choose to use tobacco).

The way in which you gather information can reduce the domain of interpretive analysis needed to address the research problem (e.g., a single case study can be designed to generate data that dies not require as extensive an explanation as using multiple cases).

Generally, the smaller the geographic unit of analysis, the more narrow the focus (e.g., rather than study trade relations in West Africa, study trade relations between Niger and Cameroon as a case study that helps to explain problems in the region).

Ask yourself how to two or more different perspectives or variables relate to one another. Designing a study around the relationships between specific variables can help constrict the scope of analysis (e.g., cause/effect, compare/contrast, contemporary/historical, group/individual, male/female, opinion/reason, problem/solution).

The shorter the time period of the study, the more narrow the focus (e.g., study of trade relations between Niger and Cameroon during the period of 2010-2018).

Focus your topic in terms of a specific type or class of people, places, or phenomena (e.g., a study of developing safer traffic patterns near schools can focus on SUVs, or just student drivers, or just the timing of traffic signals in the area).

Use two or more of the above strategies to focus your topic very narrowly.

This strategy focused on the relationship of two variables or perspectives.

The focus is the specific type or class of people, places, or phenomena.

In this strategy, the researcher chooses one lens through which to view the research problem, or look at just one facet of it.

When two or more strategies are used to narrow a topic, the researcher employs this strategy.

If the researcher wants to study the season-related illnesses of the people in Alaska during winter season, what strategy is employed?