✰ Its main aim is to find out the truth which is hidden and which has not been discovered as yet. Though each research study has its own specific purpose.
✰ it is a process of enquiry and investigation.
➥ Research objectives may fall into number of following broad categories:
✰ Exploratory or fomulative research: Gain familiarity with a new phenomenon or develop new insight into a phenomenon.
✰ Descriptive research: To portray accurately the characteristics of a particular individual, situation or group.
✰ Diagnostic research: To determine the frequency with which something occurs or with which it is associated with something else.
✰ Review and synthesize the existing knowledge.
✰ Offer solutions to a problem.
✰ Explore and analyse more general issues.
✰ Construct or create a new procedure or system.
✰ Generate new knowledge.
✰ Its result is a continuous critical investigation.
✰ It is not common to be able to think beyond a grooved channel.
✰ Sustained experimental work needed for discovery is not easily forthcoming.
✰ Most people lack the depth of knowledge needed for it.
Q2| NET Paper-1 June 2011 Research is conducted to A. Generate new knowledge B.Not to develop a theory C.Obtain research degree D.Reinterpret existing knowledge Which of the above are correct ?
| NET December 2013