INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH
, LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students will be able to:
• know how to select an appropriate research topic
• understand how to translate a problem into a research
problem
• clearly and concisely define a research problem
• understand how to explain the significance of a research
study
• understand the importance of setting achievable and clear
research objectives
• translate research objectives into research questions
and/or research hypotheses
• link research objectives with methodology
, What is research?
• Research is a systematic, formal rigorous and
precise process employed to gain solutions to
problems and/or to discover and interpret new
facts and relationships
• Research is the process of looking for a specific
answer to a specific question in an organised
objective reliable way
• Research is systematic, controlled, empirical and
critical investigation of hypothetical propositions
about the presumed relations among natural
phenomena