Pure research - intended to lead to theoretical developments and may not have any practical implication.

Applied Reseach - intended to lead the solution of specific problems and usually involves working with clients who identify the problem and if lucky enough pay for solution.

Action Research - start from the view that research should lead to change and therefore that change should be incorporated into the research process itself.

• Aim- to look for patterns, ideas or hypotheses, rather than testing of conforming hypothesis.

Descriptive research - describe fenomena as they exist.

-to identify and obtain information on the characteristic of a particular problem or issue.

• Explanatory identifying and possibly, controlling the variables in activities.

• involve collecting, analysing data and applying statistical test.

Qualitative - more subjective in nature and invlove examining and reflecting on perception.

Deductive- study in whicha conceptual & theoritical structure is developed & then tested by empirical observation, thus particular instances are deduced from general inference.

Inductive - esentially reverses the process found in deductive research.

Ideographic method - much less sturctured and are focused more on explanation and understanding of phenomena with much more emphasis on qualitative data.

Nomothetic method - most appropiate to the deductive approach to research in as much as they include the more highly structured research methodologies.