CHARACTERISTIC OF A GOOD RESEARCH
1) ANALYTICAL
-research applies analytic procedures in
gathering data whether historical, descriptive,
experimental or case study.
2) CYCLICAL
-research is ac cyclical process. It starts with a
problem and ends with a problem
3) CRITICAL
-research exhibits careful and precise
judgment by establishing higher level of
confidence
4) EMPIRICAL
-research is based on direct experience/
observation by the researcher and the
collection of data. Rely on practice experience
without the benefit of science knowledge or
theory
5) LOGICAL
-research is conducted based on the valid
procedures and principles where scientific
investigation is done in an orderly manner so
that the researcher has confidence
6) REPLICABLE
-research designs and procedures are
replicated to enable the researcher to arrive
at valid and conclusive results
QUALITIES OF A GOOD RESEARCHER
1) CURIOSITY
-a researcher reflects and ponders on the
situations, conditions and problems around
him. He has an inquisitive mind; his inquiry
does not end until he comes up with a good
problem. He keeps on reading literature
related to the problem he had identifies as a
product of his inquisitive mind.
2) PRUDENCE
-a researcher conducts his study at the right
time and at the right place. He uses his
resources efficiently and economically
-4 m’s: manpower, money, materials, and
machineries
3) INTELLECTUAL-HONESTY
-honest in collecting/ gathering facts in order
to arrive at honest results
4) HEALTHY CRITICISM
-a food researcher always verifies his results
5) HUMILITY
-a good researcher is humble as to what he
discovered in the course of his research. He is
humble enough to consult other people who
have more authority in order to verify his
results
6) OPEN-MINDEDNESS
-a good researcher accepts constructive and
destructive criticism openly for the
improvement of his study
7) RESOURCEFULNESS
-the researcher utilizes readily available
materials to substitute costly materials to be
used in his study
8) SCIENTIFIC
-precise in collecting data
JULY 9, 2010
MAN’S MAJOR PROBLEMS DEMAND RESEARCH
– how to reduce his burden of work
– how to relieve suffering and how to increase
satisfaction
EXAMPLES:
1) Documents: pen and paper-typewriter-
computer
2) Light: coconut oil lamp-candle-electricity/light
bulbs
3) Foul odor of pig and chicken manure polluted
the air inhaled by residents near piggeries
and poultry farms; culturing lead to the use of
this waste as a source of fertilizers and
biomass
July, 12, 2010
VALUES OF RESEARCH TO MAN
1) Improves the quality of life
2) Develops and evaluates methods that test
concepts, practices, and theories
3) Corrects perceptions as well as expand them
4) Answers the curiosity of man
5) Satisfies man’s needs
THE RESEARCH PROCESS
1) OBSERVATION
-5 senses
2) PROBLEM/OBJECTIVES
-an unanswered question in the mind of the
researcher
3) HYPOTHESES
-an educated guess
4) THEORETICAL/CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
-main plan/skeleton of the research,
relationship of variables
5) ASSUMPTIONS
-foundation
-assuming things that would happen based on
the framework
6) REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
-definition of terms
7) RESEARCH DESIGN
-process/procedures/methods
-materials
-statistical tools
8) DATA COLLECTION
9) DATA PROCESSING AND STATISTICAL TREATMENT
-application of the research design
10)ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
-interpretation of data based on the results
-implication
11)SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS
-answers the problem
-recommendations for further study
@RESEARCH PROCESS IS CYCLICAL
1) Research begins with a problem: an unanswered
question in the mind of the researcher
2) Research sees the goal in a clear problem
3) Research subdivides the problem into appropriate
sub-problems
4) Research points tentative solutions to the problem
through appropriate hypothesis. This hypothesis
direct research to facts
5) Research looks for a path directed by the
hypothesis and guided by the problem. The facts
are collected and organized.
6) Research interprets the meaning of the facts which
leads to a resolution of the problem thus
confirming/ rejecting hypothesis and providing
answers that question which began the research
7) ***research holds the hypothesis until all the facts
are collected and interpreted. At the point the
hypothesis are supported/ rejected.