Use of Research Tools

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 Use of Research Tools: It is necessary to adopt a systematic procedure to collect essential data. Relevant data, adequate in quantity and quality should be collected.

The instruments thus employed as means for collecting data are called tools. The selection of suitable instruments or tools is of vital importance for successful research.

Research tools are specific mechanisms or strategies that the researcher uses to collect, manipulate, or interpret data. 

Six general tools of research:

1) the library and its resources,

2) the computer and its software,

3) techniques of measurement,

4) statistics,

5) the human mind, and

6) language.

Questionnaires, interviews, rating and attitude scales, and tests, are the major data-gathering research tools. In the following sections and sub-sections, we shall discuss these research tools. ‘Questionnaire’ is a commonly used and frequently abused tool for gathering a variety of data. Three of the most influential and common purposes of research are exploration, description, and explanation.

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