It is necessary to understand what the term scientific means. Scientific research is focused on the goal of problem solving and pursues a step-by step…

Answers to issues can be found either by the process of deduction or the process of induction, or by a combination of the two. Deduction…

A descriptive study is undertaken in order to ascertain and be able to describe the characteristics of the percentage of members who are in their…

An explanatory study is undertaken when not much is known about the situation at hand, or when no information is available on how similar problems…

A nominal scale is one that allows the researcher to assign subjects to certain categories or groups. For example, with respect to the variable of…

If there is any measurement of the value of research, it is usually an after-the-fact event. Twedt reported on one such effort, an evaluation of…

Studies that engage in hypotheses testing usually explain the nature of certain relationships, or establish the differences among groups or the independence of two or…

An interval scale allows us to perform certain arithmetical operations on the data collected from the respondents. Whereas the nominal scale allows us only to…

An ordinal scale not only categories the variables in such a way as to denote differences among the various categories, it also rank-orders the categories…

Open-ended questions allow respondents to answer in any way they choose. An example of an open-ended question is asking the respondent to state five things…