INVESTIGATION CONCEPTS

INVESTIGATION CONCEPTS

1. SCIENTIFIC METHOD

   • Is a set of procedures by which scientific problems are posed and the hypothesis and instruments of investigative work are tested.
   • STAGES: Perception of a difficulty, identification and definition of a difficulty, proposed solutions to the problem, deduction of the consequences of the proposed solutions, hypothesis verification
   • FEATURES: Is phatic, transcends the facts, empirical verification, self-correcting, general formulations, is objective

2. ELEMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION

   • SUBJECT
     • Develop the activity (The researcher)
   • OBJECT
     • What inquires, that is, the matter or theme
   • MEANS, MEDIUM
     • What is required to carry out the activity, that is, the set of appropriate methods and techineques
   • END
     • What is pursued, the purposes of the search activity, which lies in the solution of a detected problem

3. CARACTERISTICS OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION

   • The hypothesis must be testable, even if the result is to deny it
   • The investigatio must involve deductive reasoning to include true premises to reach a logical conclusio and inductive reasoning to take an apposite approach
   • It must be made up of an independent variable, that is, it does not change and a dependent or changing variable
   • The experimentation process consists of an experimental group that is compared with a control group

4. QUANTITATIVE APPROACH

   • Uses data collection and analysis to answer research questions and test previously stated hyphoteses and relies on numerical measurement, counting and often the use of statistics to accuretely establish patterns of behavior in a populatio

5. QUALITATIVE APPROACH

   • Is to provide a research methodology that allows us to understand the complex of the lived experience from the point of view of the people who live it

6. QUANTITATIVE APPROACH

   • Uses data collection and analysis to answer research questions and test previously stated hyphoeses and relies on numerical measurement, counting and often the use of statistics to accurately establish patterns of behavior i a population

7. TYPES OF RESEARCH

   • DESCRIPTIVE REARCH
     • It analyzes the characteristics of a population or phenomenon and discovers the relationships between them, therefore what it does is defie, classify, divide or summarize
   • ANALYTICAL RESEARCH
     • It basically consists of establishing the comparison of variables between study and control groups, it also refers to the proposition of hyphoeses that the researcher tries to prove or invalidate
   • EXPEROMETAL RESEARCH
     • It is presented by manipulating an untested experimental variable under rigorously controlled conditions in order to describe how or why a particular situatio or event occurs
   • QUEASI-EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
     • Is one that aims to test a causal hyphotesis by manipulating an independent variable where for logistical or ethical reasons, the research units cannot be assigned randomly to the groups