Thursday, January 23, 2014

Educational Research

Education plays a vital role in progress of an individual as well as collective life of a society. Education develops personality of a person and makes him suitable for social values.  It is an admitted fact that values of life have been a dynamic nature with time changing so, research in education plays a pivotal role for developing a society according to new scenario. Educational research is more formal, systematic and intensive process of caring on the scientific method of analysis. It involves a more systematic structure of investigation usually resulting in some sort of formal record of procedures and a report of result or conclusions.
“Educational research is formal and systematic application of the scientific method to the study of educational problems”.
Research is an important ingredient in the process of university education system and historically, it is said that research is the foundation of development of life. Therefore, in each discipline a research and development section is said to be inevitable.
A researcher also finds it very hard to decide whether the research being proposed is new or the repetition of previous researches. So while doing research, one of the major issues other than material and relevant literature is preparation of an abstract. It depicts the real picture of research, data and methodology in a few words. It is an essential element in research. So, abstract is a formal, systematic and planned summary which a writer prepares for his completed articles, thesis or documents. Abstract is important tool for the readers who want to keep up with an explosion of information about conceptual and research documents.

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