Research

By: Himanshu Malik Research Scholar Department of Tourism and Management Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra

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Meaning of research Objectives of research Motivation in research Types of research Research approaches Significance of research Scientific research and its characteristics Criteria of good research

Meaning

Research :

Re Search (Punah Khoj)

Research is the systematic process of problem identification and finding the solution of the problem through data collection and analysis of data with verified tests. Further research is described as A voyage of discovery. An art of scientific investigation. A systematized effort to gain new knowledge. An activity caused by instinct of inquisitiveness to gain fresh knowledge.

Doubt curisity

Inquiry

Invention through scientific and inductive thinking

Development of logical thinking and organisation

Objectives

 To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to

achieve new insights into it. To portray accurately the characteristics of a particular individual, situation or a group. To determine the frequency with which something occurs or with which it is associated with something else. To list a hypothesis of a casual relationship between variables.

Motivation

 Desire to get a research degree. Desire to face challenges in solving the unsolved

problems. Intellectual joy of creative working. Service to society Get respectability

Types of research

Research can be classified on the basis of viewpoint

Application
Pure/Fundamental Applied

Objectives

Descriptive Correlation Explanatory Exploratory

Inquiry mode

Quantitative Qualitative

On the basis of time research can be

One time research Longitudinal resesarch

Classification of research on the basis of environment in which it takes place.

Field setting Laboratory

Simulation

Classification on the basis of purpose

Conclusion oriented Decision oriented

Other types
Conceptual Clinical/Diagnosis

Empirical
Historical

Approaches

 Quantitative

a) Inferential b) Experimental c) Simulation Qualitative

Significance

 Research inculcates scientific and inductive

thinking. Research promotes the development of logical habits of thinking and organisation. The role of research in fields of applied economics has greatly increased in modern times. Research provides the basis for government policies in our economic system. Research has significance in solving operational and planning problems of business and industry. Research is important for social scientists in studying social relationships and in seeking answers to various social problems.

 Careerism to students.

Livelihood for professionals.

Outlet for new ideas and insights to philosophers

and thinkers. Development of new styles and creative work to literary people. Generalisation of new theories to analysts and intellectuals.

Scientific research

Scientific research is a systematic controlled empirical and critical investigation of propositions about the presumed relationships about various phenomena.
Scientific research is based on certain postulates It relies on empirical evidence; It utilizes relevant concepts; It is committed to only objective considerations; It presupposes ethical neutrality. It results into probabilistic predictions; Methodologies are critically screened for use in testing the conclusions. It aims at formulating most general axioms/scientific theories.

Characteristics of scientific research

Characteristics of scientific research states that it should be

Controlled Rigorous

Systematic
Valid and verifiable Empirical

critical

Criteria of good research

One expects research to satisfy the following criteria: The purpose of the research should be clearly defined. The research procedure used should be described in sufficient detail. The procedural design of the research should be carefully planned. The researcher should report with complete frankness. The analysis of data should be sufficiently adequate. The methods of analysis used should be appropriate. The validity and reliability of the data should be checked carefully. Conclusions should be confined to those justified by

In other words

Good research is systematic Good research is logical Good research is empirical Good research is replicable

Thus to conclude:

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