Insights into Research Methods and Objectives at Christian Eminent College, Indore

CHRISTIAN EMINENT COLLEGE, INDORE (Academy of Management, Professional Education and Research) An Autonomous Institution Accredited with A Grade by NAAC E-Content On Introduction to Research Methods 26th June 2020 Prepared By- Prof. Sumit Sharma Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Research is an organized and systematic study of material and sources in order to discover new things and establish facts and reach new. Redman and Moore define research as a Systematized effort to gain new knowledge . Some people consider research as a movement, a movement from the known to the unknown.

According to Clifford woody, research comprises defining and redefining problems, formulating hypothesis or suggested solutions collecting, organising and evaluating data, making deductions and reaching conclusions; to determine whether they fit the formulating hypothesis.

To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to achieve new insights into it. To portray accurately the characteristics of particular or individual situation or a group. To test a hypothesis of a casual relation between variables. Social objectives. Economical objectives

Creative work Face challenges in solving unsolved problems. Desire to get a research degree along with its consequential benefits. To test a hypothesis of a casual relation between variables.

Action Research This applied recommended changes to a process, bearing in mind to solve a problem and to carry out research to determine the effectiveness of identified changes. It aims at solving an identified recommendations made to a process Action Research This type applied research type of of research research where research is is mostly where it it requires implanting mostly essential essential in in problem based on

Creative Research: Creative research involves the development of new theories; new procedures and new inventions and is used to some extent in all fields, in contrast to experimental research, creative research is much less structured and cannot always be pre planned. This type of research includes both practical and theoretical research. Creative Research: Creative research involves the development of new theories; new

Descriptive Research: This type of research is also called a case involves studying a specific situation to ascertain whether any general theories may arise out of it whether an existing theory are borne out by specific situations. Descriptive Research: This type of research is also called a case study research . It study research . It

Experimental Research: The cornerstone of science is experimental and creative research. Experimental research is primarily concerned with cause and effect. Herethe variables of interest are identified (i.e. the dependent and independent variables)and the researcher seeks to determine the effect of changes in the independentvariables on the dependent variable. Experimental Research: The cornerstone of science is experimental and creative

Ex Ex- -post facto Research: This is Research from after the fact and this type of research typically occurs using data generated from experimental research. While in experimental research, the effect is determined from the cause, here the cause is deduced from the effect. post facto Research: This is Research from after the fact and this type of research

Expository Research: This is research based purely on existing information and leads to review type reports . It involves reading widely on a field, comparing and contrasting, analyzing and synthesizing all points of view and developing new insights Expository Research: This is research based purely on existing information and normally

Historical Research: Studies on the past to determine cause research is often geared towards using past events to examine current situation and to predict future situation. e.g stock market forecasting. Data is gathered from primary sources (records made at the time of past events) and secondary sources (records made after the event). ( Lodico et al,2010) Historical Research: Studies on the past to determine cause- -effect patterns. This type of effect patterns. This type of

Descriptive Versus Analytical: Applied Versus Fundamental: Quantitative Versus Qualitative: Conceptual Versus Empirical: Other Types Of Research:

(1)Formulating the research problem (2) Extensive literature survey; (3) Developing hypothesis; (4) Preparing the research design; (5) Determining sample design; (6) Collecting data; (7) Execution of the project; (8) Analysis of data; (9) Hypothesis testing; (10) Generalization and interpretation, and (11) Preparation of the report or presentation of the results

There should be an individual or a group who have some difficulty or problem. There should be some objective(s) to be pursued. A person or an organization who wants nothing cannot have a problem. There should be alternative ways of pursuing the objective the researcher wants to pursue. This implies that there should be more than one alternative means available to the researcher. This is because if the researcher has no choice of alternative means, he/she would not have a problem.

There should be some doubt in the mind of the researcher about the choice of alternative means. This implies that research should answer the question relating to the relative efficiency or suitability of the possible alternatives. There should be a context to which the difficulty relates.

Library management and functioning is not satisfactory at many places. There is also the difficulty of timely availability of published data . There does not exist a code of conduct for researcher. Research studies overlapping one another are undertaken quite often for want to adequate information.