Research

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• historical approach

  Collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past.
• historical background

  The first section of a research article/thesis and justifies the need for conducting the study and summarises what the study aims to achieve.
• historical biographical approach

  Theory that focuses on life, times and environment of the author and deals with the effects of these factors on the work of art
• historical research

  A procedure supplimentary to observation in which the researcher seeks to test the authenticity of the reports or observations made by others. Ii involves analysis of events that occurred in the remote or past
• holding factors

  Holding participant variables constant, that is, testing all participants in the same location with identical instructions, etc.
• holocentric

  A philosophical position which focuses on solutions as the outcome of human agency and on critical thinking.
• homogenous groups

  Groups in which people, companies, organisations or respondents are identical or are similar to the point at which they can be consdered identical for a given purpose.
• homoscedasticity

  An assumption of equal or similar variances in different groups being compared.  The variance of errors (residuals) is constant across different levels of an independent variable.  It's essential for regression models.  The similarity of characteristics or conditions among study participants (homogeneity)
• honours degree

  A degree known as a gateway to postgraduate studies after one has achieved undergraduate studies.
• human dignity

  A kind of basic worth or status that purportedly belongs to all persons equally, and which grounds fundamental moral or political duties or rights.
• humanities

  A study or descipline that treat human culture, experience,and perception as an object of study.
• hypothesis

  A tentative explanation based on theory to predict a causal relationship between variables.  A proposed explanation of a phenomenon.
• ideographic research

  The thorough, intensive study of a single person or case in order to obtain and in-depth understanding of that person or case, as contrasted with a study of the universal  aspects of groups of people or cases.
• imagination

  Action of forming new ideas, images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses
• implications

  The logical consequences or effects resulting from research findings.  Researchers discuss implications to inform practice, policy, or further research.  The impact that your research makes.
• impressionistic approach

  It works with the critic’s personal response to “what I liked” and “what I did not like”
• incentive

  Rewards offered to people in exchange for their participation in a study.
• incidents

  An instance of something happening, an event or occurrence.
• indent

  To leave a blank space between a margin and the beginning of a line of text, usually at the beginning of a paragraph.
• independent variables

  The conditions of an experiment that are systematically manipulated by the researcher.  A variable that is not impacted by the dependent variable, and that itself impacts the dependent variable.
• in-depth interviews

  A research method in which face to face interviews with respondents are conducted using open-ended questions to explore topics in great length.  Questions are often customised for each interview, and topics are generally probed extensively with follow-up questions.
• indirect observation

  It involves the analysis of textual material generated either indirectly from transcriptions of audio recordings of verbal behaviour in natural settings.
• individual interviews

  Talking with one person at a time, face to face,by telephone, with instant messaging or other computer-aided means.
• inductive analysis

  A form of analysis based on inductive reasoning; a researcher using inductive analysis starts with answers, but formulates questions throughout the research process.
• inductive

  A form of reasoning in which a generalised conclusion is formulated from particular instances.