descriptive research
descriptive study

In other words, descriptive research can be said to have a low requirement for internal validity.

Often the best approach, prior to writing descriptive research, is to conduct a survey investigation.

Thus, Descriptive research cannot be used to create a causal relationship, where one variable affects another.

Descriptive research, which, as the term suggests, describes "what is".

Descriptive research can be qualitative or quantitative in orientation.

By the early 20th century, descriptive research concentrated primarily upon modern languages.

The distinction between descriptive research and explanatory research is often very blurred.

Descriptive research, also known as statistical research, describes data and characteristics about the population or phenomenon being studied.

Case study in psychology refers to the use of a descriptive research approach to obtain an in-depth analysis of a person, group, or phenomenon.

Validity in prescription-driven research is approached in different ways than descriptive research.

Descriptive research is used to determine what is and is usually conducted for one of three purposes:

At first many of the articles described historical and descriptive research, but in the early 1960s the journal began to shift toward experimental research.

Research designed to answer questions about the current state of affairs such as the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals is known as descriptive research.

In scientific methodology, the conceptualizing of descriptive research precedes the hypotheses of "explanatory research".

Descriptive research generally precedes explanatory research.

Exploratory research is also conducted to simplify the findings of the conclusive or descriptive research, if the findings are very hard to interpret for the marketing managers.

For a discussion of how the underlying conceptualization of Exploratory research, Descriptive research and explanatory research fit together see Conceptual framework.

Descriptive Research: The objective of descriptive research is to describe things, such as the market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of consumers who buy the product.'

James MacGregor Burns (1978) first introduced the concept of transforming leadership in his descriptive research on political leaders, but this term is now used in organizational psychology as well (Bass & Riggio, 2006).

This is indeed encouraged while doing GT (Glaser, 1998) since GT is not concerned with data accuracy as in descriptive research but is about generating concepts that are abstract of time, place and people.

The first of which is focused on geographies of disease and ill health, involving descriptive research quantifying disease frequencies and distributions, and analytic research concerned with finding what characteristics make an individual or population susceptible to disease.

Prescription seeks to define standard language forms and give advice on effective language use, and can be thought of as a presentation of the fruits of descriptive research in a learnable form, though it also draws on more subjective aspects of language aesthetics.

Qualitative research is descriptive research that is focused on observing and describing events as they occur, with the goal of capturing all of the richness of everyday behavior and with the hope of discovering and understanding phenomena that might have been missed if only more cursory examinations have been made.