TERMS AND DEFINITIONS FOR RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Terms and definitions for Research Methodology



Terms and definitions for Research Methodology

Research (that is, what it is, and what it is not).

The research is a process that, by applying the method of scientific attempts to obtain information relevant and reliable (credible and credit), to understand, verify, correct or apply knowledge.

Basic and applied research.

Basic Research: Also called pure research, theoretical or dogmatic. It is characterized by part of a framework and remains there, the purpose lies in formulating new theories or modifies existing ones, to increase scientific or philosophical, but compare it with any practicality.

Applied Research also called practical or empirical. It is characterized for the application or use of knowledge acquired. Applied research is closely linked to basic research; it depends on the results and progress of the latter.

Theory; empirical data, primary versus secondary data.

Primary and secondary sources which provide the information and what the investigator should consider carefully in order to determine its reliability for through internal and external criticism. In the first case verifies the authenticity of a document or track and in the second, determines the meaning and validity of the data contained in the document is considered authentic

Research article, literature review, and journal, magazine.

Documentary research: This type of research is being performed, as its name suggests, relying on sources of nature documentary, that is, documents of any kind. As subtypes of this research are literature research, and archives, the journals section, the first is based on the consultation of books , the second in articles or essays for magazines and newspapers, and the third document found in the files , such as cards , crafts, circulars, records, and so on.

Quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods research.

Quantitative studies using secondary data, which, unlike the two previous addresses data analysis using existing data. Qualitative research is one that seeks to describe complex events in their natural environment, preferably qualitative information. The mixed model throughout the process combines the quantitative and qualitative approaches having greater integration.

Scales of measurement (such as nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)

A scale is a conventional pattern measurement, and basically consists of an instrument capable of representing with great fidelity verbal, graphic or symbolic status of a variable

Measurement validity and reliability.

For a variable to be valid, must represent the greatest possible accuracy and fidelity, properties conferred upon him the object of study within the theoretical framework. Reliability: It considers the system reliability as the probability that the system works or develops some function, under conditions laid down for a period of time. Probability of proper functioning of something can be reliability.

Descriptive and inferential statistics.

Descriptive statistics is a set of methods to organize, summarize and present data in an informative Statistics inferential set methods used to know something about a population, based on a sample. Descriptive study performed on a subset of the population called sample and then extends the results to the entire population.

Deductive logic, inductive reasoning, and critical thinking.

Deductive reasoning moves a general premise to a more specific ...