EDUC 6163: Building Research Competencies “Understanding Research” Chart—Week 2

Your “Understanding Research” Chart is divided into the following sections:

·         Section 1: Key Terms

·         Section 2: Learning Resource Highlights

·         Section 3: Reflection

Use the instructions document to help you complete this chart.

SECTION 1: KEY TERMS

WEEK 2 (Chapter 2: The Research Process)	TERMS USED	DEFINITION OF TERMS
	1.     Deductive Research Methodology	Like detectives, researchers have different ideas about the best way to do their work. Researchers pursue their research in a linear, logical and step- by-step way. In more technical terms, this is referred to as a deductive research methodology. It is associated with positivist paradigms and often uses quantitative approaches to data. Researchers who approach their work in this way generally wait until all their data are in before beginning to analyses and draw conclusions. They usually set out to test hypotheses based on theory and research already completed and carefully design their studies with this intention.
	2.Inductive research methodology	Other researchers have a more fluid and intuitive approach to their research. The technical terms, they engage in what is referred to as inductive research methodology, often associated with interpretivist and postmodern paradigms, and frequently using qualitative approaches to data. The researcher generally tries to avoid too many preconceptions about what will be discovered, and is keen to stay close to and analyse the data, looking at the theory emerging from it and perhaps even modifying the line of inquiry in response to developing understanding.
	3.Triagulation	The approaches are not mutually exclusive and many researchers use a combination to gain a more complete picture of what they are interested in. The use of different methods within the same study triangulation. Regardless of the approach taken, at some point in the research process most researchers find that they need to complete the following steps if they need to complete the following steps if they want to generate research that is informative, ethical, meaningful, persuasive and significant.

SECTION 2: LEARNING RESOURCE HIGHLIGHTS

TOPIC - WEEK 2	TOPIC SUMMARY	PERSONAL COMMENT
(name the topic here)	I have learned more on design research, by careful design of research takes time, and am again time well spent. How good design will ensure that research provides me with data that enable me to achieve what I am set out to achieve whether it is to describe, understand or explain what interests me the most. To change the plan halfway would risk serious breaches of the control needed in the sort of research. Researchers may use deductive or inductive research methodologies, positivist, interpretivist or postmodern paradigms, and quantitative or qualitative data approaches depending on the questions they are interested in.	The importance of carefully refining a research topic along with the practicalities of deciding what is a workable research question. Then it all depends on the kind of research you doing to see which is best because to me all research data is helpful and useful in many ways. But it’s good that I learned more about the design research in how good it ensure research in a risk serious breaches. In the control needed in the sort of research use to deductive or inductive.

Chapter 2: (state the chosen reflection question here)

My reflection question I chose Which step(s) would I enjoy the most? It will be the process/analyses data once the data collection is finished, the phase of data processing and analysis can begin. It is important to draw on literature review to develop a conceptual/ theoretical framework for analyzing the data. The framework is made up of concepts, built from the literature that will apply to organization and selection of data as well the analysis.

 SECTION 3: REFLECTION