Research Methods

Article no 5: image source: The telegraph Computational thinking: Example: 1 ·        URL:  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-6528-7_7 ·        Search Term: Computational Thinking. ·        Source: Google Scholar. ·        Author: Hillary Swanson,Gabriella Anton,Connor Bain,Michael Horn, Uri Wilensky ·        Publisher:  2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Part of  Springer Nature ·        Year: First Online: 03 May 2019        ·        Publication: online book ·        How ‘credible (believable)’ you think it is, Include your reasons: This article has a good credibility as it has a number...

Article: 4 Research paradigms: A paradigm talks about the methods or approach of conducting a research, types of research paradigms consists of Positivist Paradigm, constructive or Interpretivist Paradigm and Pragmatism each of these paradigms can be further differentiated by analyzing their Ontology. Epistemology and methodology. Positivism/Positivist Paradigm: Positivism is about the knowledge obtained methodically through scientific experiments in simple terms talks about the knowledge gained through observations, facts and figures. Positivism is an approach that tests objective theories by analyzing measurable variables. This could also be known as the scientific method or modernism. According to Creswell 2011, scientific knowledge is derived from the accumulation of data obtained theory free and value free from observation. This suggests that anything that cannot be observed and thus in some way measured (that is quantified), is of little or no importance. Interp...

Article 3: What is ontology? How is it relevant to research? Ontology is the study of reality where it talks about how things exists in the real world, it mainly looks into several questions that are related. What things exists?  For example:  the sun exits, the moon exists, dragons do not exist. and vampires do not exit, numbers exists. What category do they belong to?  Do numbers have physical properties or are they  ideas? Is there something called the objective reality? (Something that actually exist) What does ‘to be’ mean? In research ontology looks into what the data is about and uses them as the basis for the structure of data or project, ontology assists researches identify how certain and confident they can be about the existence and nature of objects they are researching about. What is epistemology? How is it relevant to research? Epistemology is the study of the scope and nature of knowledge, the method of obtaining the know...

Article: 1 Research methods. February 28 2020 What do you think ‘research’ is? Searching and gathering knowledge about certain topics of interest using different means and methods. Do you think you will ever need research skills? Everyone needs research skills in their day to day lives, to make it simple let’s say you want to purchase a vehicle, you will not go buy a vehicle straight away, you will first analyze the vehicle market to first identify what suits you, then chose a proper vehicle sale or seller that is willing to sell a vehicle that is worth your budget, all this gathering information comes under research. Research skills are needed even for your day to day decision making and it is very important as it helps you to take an accurate picture before committing into a decision. What do you think a research journal is and who is it written for? The findings of a research and the methods and means used to research are recorded in the resea...

Article 2: image source : pinterest 6th March 2020 Is there a difference between ‘knowing’ something and ‘having knowledge’ of something? Knowing something means that we already know something or some basic facts and having knowledge on the other hand means that we have details knowledge about the specific thing either though experience or detailed research. Ex: we know this a laptop but we don’t know about how it’s functioning (what’s underneath) What is ‘truth’? Truth is stating something or explaining something for its actual state after a detailed research without adding details of one’s own point of view, What do we really mean when we say something is ‘true’? It means that the facts stated are not manipulated nor exaggerated and the facts are stated as it is and is reliable. Is there a difference between knowing something is ‘true’ and believing that something is ‘true’? Knowing something is true is where you analyze, research and conclude that the...