Seminar on “EXPLORATORY RESEARCH DESIGN” Presented by, S.ARUN JOSEPH. M.L.I.Sc D.L.I.S.
May 27, 2015
Seminar on
“EXPLORATORY RESEARCH DESIGN”
Presented by,
S.ARUN JOSEPH.M.L.I.Sc
D.L.I.S.University of
Kerala.
W EL C O M E
S.ARUN JOSEPH.
M.L.I.Sc
INTRODUCTION
“A research design is the arrangement of conditions for collected and analysis of data in a manner that aims to combine relevance to the research purpose with economy in procedure.”
♫ In fact , the research design is the conceptual structure within which research is conducted ; it constitutes the blue print for the collection , measurement and analysis of data.
Different Research Designs Exploratory type research
design Descriptive type research
design Diagnostic type research
design Experimental type research
design
Exploratory Research Design
Explorative research studies are also termed as formulative research studies
Exploratory study is a systematic scientific approach which enables a social scientist to determine whether an idea is in reality or not
Explorative studies can provide ideas , hypothesis , suggestions that might never occur to the social scientist sitting in an office and mediating over the problem
More flexible Done in the field whether
there is little knowledge is available
The exploratory method , according to Katz , “ represents the earlier stage of science “
This significant observation implies that all sciences must have at the beginning had an approach which has purely exploratory.
Inorder to attain research objectives the exploratory method , as suggested by Selltiz et.al . , should adopt the following steps :
Review of related social science and another pertinent literature , one of the simplest ways of economizing effort in an enquiry , is to review the work already alone by others
Survey of people who had partial experience with the problem to be studied : persons by virtue of the nature of their jobs are in a position to throw light on the subject matter of interest of the investigator.
The analysis of insight stimulating examples : social scientists working in an area which is yet to be explored , which incidentally is the usual experience of an innovative social scientist , have found the intensive study of the selected samples to be particularly fruitful method of stimulating insight
Katz has conceptualized exploratory studies at two levels ;
The first is the discovery of the significant variable in the situation
The second is the discovery of relationship between variables
It is imperative for the investigator to delimit the area to be studied specially at the first level
Exploratory studies which do not sets limits for themselves have limits imposed by various practical matters
Mostly the results obtained through the explorative study are to be treated as a sign post for future and further study in the same or similar direction
For this reason , they are also known as formulative studies
WHEN EXPLORATIVE RESEARCH ?
Eff ect iveness
Advantage
It’s ability to generate many ideas that could be further explored in more controlled conditions , apart from overcoming the most difficult portion of enquiry , which is it’s initiation
CONCLUSION Exploratory research is a type of
research conducted for a problem that has not been clearly defined
Helps determine the best research design, data collection method and selection of subjects
Exploratory research is not typically generalizable to the population at large.
It should draw definitive conclusions only with extreme caution. Given its fundamental nature, exploratory research often concludes that a perceived problem does not actually exist.
REFERENCE
KOTHARI , C R. Research methodology : Methods and techniques. 2nd ed. New Delhi : New age international ltd , 2004.
Hasouneh , Abdel Baset I . Research methodology . Jaipur : Sublime publications . 2003.
Sharma , BAV, ed .Research methods in social sciences . New Delhi : Sterling publishers . 1984.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_research
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