1. What is research?
Scientific research is controlled, purposeful, and systematic investigation of natural or social phenomena within a theoretical framework, in order to test hypotheses about the relationships among such phenomena.

2. Those are mere “searches” of information...
What research is not....
It is not the seeking of information in the library, books, WWW, internet, or journals....
Those are mere “searches” of information...

3. Involves: Observational studies Mailed surveys
Historical investigations
Philosophical investigations
Experimental investigations
Laboratory experiments
Analytical studies
And so forth...

4. May observe and report what is....
May explain the how and why....
May deal with the past, present, and future...

5. What is systematic Inquiry?
deliberate and purposeful and organized effort to gain knowledge...
provides more than superficial description
understanding the whys and relationships
predicting behaviors and circumstances
examining the effects of variables on others

6. Albert North Whitehead
All life is part of a comprehensive “order of things”, governed by basic laws and principles. This order...must combine carefully gathered or observed facts (the basis of empirical research) with theories based on the weaving of general principles which tie the facts together.
Albert North Whitehead

7. What is meant by empirical?
Relying on or derived from experiment
Use of the senses to help understand in a systematic manner our world.

8. Logical Positivism or Quantitative research
Naturalistic or Qualitative research

9. Scientific Method:
Induction
Deduction
Verification

10. More specifically... Defines a problem
Observes and collects relevant data
Organizes and classifies data
States hypotheses
Deducts from the hypotheses
Tests and verifies hypotheses
Draws conclusions