8. Pre-training questionnaire
• This questionnaire was designed to determine what you already
know about the workshop theme. We will ask you to complete the
questionnaire again at the end of the workshop so that we can
assess what you have learned and how the trainers have done at
conveying the main points.
• This is not a “test” and you will not be “graded” on your
performance.
• The questionnaire has questions about a wide variety of topics that
will be covered in this workshop. You should complete all questions
on your own and to the best of your ability.
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Discuss with your team in 10 minutes
1- what is the definitions of scientific research ?
Discuss with your team in 10 minutes
1- what is the definitions of scientific research ?
Please, select the most relevant definition of
scientific research to you as a team and the team
leader will represent your results within 5
minutes?
Please, select the most relevant definition of
scientific research to you as a team and the team
leader will represent your results within 5
minutes?
Activity No. 3
12. Scientific Research Definitions
• Research in common terminology refers to a search for
knowledge.
• Once can also define research as a scientific and
systematic search for pertinent information on a
specific topic.
• In fact, research is an art of scientific investigation.
• The Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English
lays down the meaning of research as “a careful
investigation or inquiry specially through search for
new facts in any branch of knowledge.”1
• Redman and Mory define research as a “systematized
effort to gain new knowledge.”2
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13. • Some people consider research as a movement, a
movement from the known to the unknown. It is
actually a voyage of discovery.
• Research is an academic activity and as such the
term should be used in a technical sense.
• D. Slesinger and M. Stephenson in the
Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences define research as
“the manipulation of things, concepts or symbols for
the purpose of generalising to extend, correct or
verify knowledge, whether that knowledge aids in
construction of theory or in the practice of an art.”
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Scientific Research Definitions
14. • Research is, thus, an original contribution to the
existing stock of knowledge making for its
advancement.
• It is the persuit of truth with the help of study,
observation, comparison and experiment.
• In short, the search for knowledge through
objective and systematic method of finding
solution to a problem is research.
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Scientific Research Definitions
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Open Discussion
1- What makes you to undertake research?
10 minutes
Open Discussion
1- What makes you to undertake research?
10 minutes
Activity No. 5
16. Motives for Research
• The possible motives for doing research may be
either one or more of the following:
1. to get a research degree;
2. solving the unsolved problems;
3. intellectual joy
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17. Motives for Research
4. service to society;
5. to get respectability.
6. directives of government
7. employment conditions
8. to understand causal relationships
• However, this is not an exhaustive list.
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