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Chapter 11: The Research Objectives - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 11: The Research Objectives
Introduction
Objectives summarise what is to be achieved by the study
Closely related to the statement of problem
5 General objectives that research in general may attempt to achieve are :
Description
Most often an exploratory phase undertaken using graphical representations and statistical measures that are not inferential.
Explanation
Involves precise hypotheses to be confronted and employs inferential statistical tests
Forecasting
A little more frequent
Control
An objective rarely set in psychological research ( for it brings important ethical considerations)
Modelling
Latest, broadest objective requires that the descriptive and explanatory phases brought sufficient information and knowledge about the system, so to build a model that is synthetically gathers the various variables in coherent and parsimonious way
The formulations of objectives will help you to:
a) Focus the study (narrow down to essentials)
b) Avoid the collection of data which are not strictly necessary
c) Organise the study in clearly defined part or phases
Types of Research Objectives
In
quantitative
study, the main objective refers to the thrust of your study which means the relationships between main variables that you want to discover while specific objective refers to relationships between specific aspects of main objectives that you want to investigate.
In
qualitative
study, the main objective refers to the general aims of the study while specific objectives attempt to give answer to all the smaller or finer details the research objectives identified
General objectives
They are broad statements of desired outcomes or general intentions of the research
They emphasise what is to be accomplished
They address the long-term project outcomes
General objective does not need to be numbered
A project should have no more than 2 or 3 general objectives
Specific objectives
They are the steps you are going to take to answer your research questions ora specific list of task needed to accomplish the goals of the project
They emphasise how aims are to be accomplished
They must be highly focused and feasible
They address the more immediate project outcomes
They make accurate use of concepts and be sensible and precisely described
They are usually numbered so that each objective reads as an 'individual' statement to convey your intentions
Specific research objectives should follow these criteria :
Be presented concisely and briefly
Be interrelated with the general objectives of your study
Be realistic of what you can accomplish in time duration
Not too vague, ambitious or broad in scope
Cover the different aspects of the problem and its contributing factors in a coherent way and in logical sequence
6.Are clearly phrased in operational terms
Are realistic considering local conditions
Use action verbs that are specific enough to be evaluated (e.g., to determine, to compare, and to calculate)
Rules of good research objectives:
Specific
Measureable
Achievable
Realistic
Timely
Phrasing research objectives from the research questions:
Research question: 1. Why do organisations introduced group briefing? 2. Has group briefing been effective? 3. Can the explanation be generalized?
Research Objective: 1. To identify organisation's objectives for group briefing. 2. To describe the extent to which the effectiveness criteria for group briefing have been met. 3. To develop an explanatory theory that associates certain factors with the effectiveness of briefing schemes