Types of Research Methods
Thursday, April 29, 2010 22:08Depending on the view point at the time, research could be described as many things: a quest for knowledge and understanding, an interesting and useful experience, a qualification courses, or an essential process for commercial success, etc.
It is an art aided by skills of inquiry, experimental design, data collection, measurement and analysis, by interpretation and by presentation. It is a big subject to write a single volume about it in any depth.
There are 13 main types of research methods widely adopted in the modern days.
1. Action Research
2. Cartography
3. Classification
4. Experience and Intuition
5. Experiment
6. Interviews
7. Mathematical Model
8. Simulation
9. Statistic Analysis/Survey
10. Particular Observation
11. Case Study
12. Context or Textual Analysis
13. Ethnography
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