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CHAPTER 4: FOUNDATION FOR GOOD RESEARCH - Coggle Diagram
CHAPTER 4: FOUNDATION FOR GOOD RESEARCH
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1. Clarity of Purpose
✨Different types of purpose of research
Explaining
Criticising
Predictive
Describing
Development
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2.Relevance
Contributing to existing knowledge
Addressing real problems or issues
Timeliness- relevance to contemporary concerns
Researcher's personal agenda
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3. Manageable Research
Travel to and from places to meet and interview people
Interviewing people
Contacting people
Data analysis
Modification of data collection materials
Discussion with supervisor or project leader
Testing or pilot stage
Draft stage of report
Preparing instruments for gathering data
More discussion with sv on chapter of the report
Literature review
Final writing stage
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4.Originality
Carrying out designed by a researcher
Providing a single technique, observation or results in an otherwise unoriginal but competent piece of work
Continuing a previously original piece of work
Showing originality in testing someone else's ideas
Establishing a new theoretical model
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5. Accuracy
Benchmarking
Check questions in questionaire
Checking results with interested and objective groups.
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6. Credibility
Breadth
Depth
Scope
Objectivity
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7. Applicability
Generalisations
- be able to generalise from one research to other situation
Transferability
- process by which can infer and interpret from one research to other situations
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8. Objectivity
Important to acknowledge and vested interests in the research that could potentially compromise the objectivity of findings
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9. Ethical approaches to research
Reactions of participants to the ways in which researchers seeks to collect data
Effect on participants of the ways in which data is analysed and reported
Maintenance of the confidentiality of data provided
Behavior and objectivity of the researcher
Consent and possible deception of participations
Voluntary nature of participation
The rights of privacy of individuals
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10. Caution
Researcher provides experience and credentials with report
Decision base conclusion are matched with detailed findings.