Research
Research is a form of organized intellectual work closely associated with the conduct of science. Like its cognates in French (recherche) and German (Forschung), the English word research carries connotations that distinguish it from such related terms as discovery and scholarship. This entry explores the differences between research, discovery, and scholarship are explored, describes three crucial transition points from scholarship to research as a mode of inquiry, and offers some observations about research as a collective project of indefinite duration.
The differences between the three terms can be grasped most easily through etymology.
Discovery suggests the revelation of something previously hidden, possibly forgotten, typically for a long time. This perhaps captures the oldest sense of knowledge in the Western intellectual tradition, traceable ...
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Reader's Guide
Descriptive Statistics
Distributions
Graphical Displays of Data
Hypothesis Testing
Important Publications
Inferential Statistics
Item Response Theory
Mathematical Concepts
Measurement Concepts
Organizations
Publishing
Qualitative Research
Reliability of Scores
Research Design Concepts
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Research Ethics
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Research Validity Issues
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Scaling
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Types of Variables
Validity of Scores
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