Research!

In life there are some events that we need to apply some steps to reach that thing in a good advantage. This procedure resembles for researching about a topic. As we know the first step should be done for starting our research is having question in our mind. After having sensible question, we need to start dig this question in details by taking required steps. These are;

• To recognize and identify the topic to be able to start

• To describe and execute collecting data

• To analyze collecting data

• To state the results of implications

When we try to find answers of these steps we can use several types of research methods. Now, I try to explain some of them by using my words.

1. Basic Research

It is a conceptual process which enables collecting and analyzing information & data to develop and enhance a theory. This research type may not be concerned to be immediate work it is all about what you are study.  For example, Skinner and his educational view can be an example of basic research. He said that educational research is done because to control masses. By this control we can analyze both whether they learn to obey or not and manage to parallelism between behaviors and what we learn. 

2. Applied Research

Applied research is designed to answer specific questions aimed at solving practical problems. Therefore, we need to take and act things to do some implementations to analyze that thing in our research. 

3. Evaluation Research

Evaluation is a systematic determination of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards. Hence, we concern with making decision about our methods that we use.

Also, we can connect them like 

Basic research = framework -> Applied research = implementation of framework -> Evaluation research = assessing the quality of framework.

After choosing our research type, we can design our method with quantitative or qualitative designing methods.  

• Quantitative Method:

We are interested in numerical data which uniform something to consider the world relative to stable to make generalization with closed-ended questions. Therefore, world is coherent. Also, we try to test hypothesis by using less variables to eliminate the contextual factors. To sum up quantitative method can be seen as holistic. 

• Qualitative Method:

We are interested in different ideas and beliefs which is related to situations where the world is not stable by focusing more narrowly with open-ended questions. Also, we try to generalize hypothesis by trying to reach of the qualitative of the topic and gather in depth insight. 

To be able to analyze our topic after choosing our research type and design method we can take some help from some other articles which are related to our topic so, we need to do literature review. A literature review or narrative review is a type of review article. A literature review is a scholarly paper that presents the current knowledge including substantive findings as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. Thanks to literature review we can collect fundamental things for our research and we can use Google scholar webpage, Eric webpage, library, etc. to make our collection more comprehensive.