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Exploratory Research (Exploration Research)
Exploratory research is a kind of research type that makes a preliminary understanding of the research object or problem, in order to obtain a preliminary impression and perceptual knowledge, and provides the basis and direction for more thorough and in-depth research in the future. The use of this type of situation is: for some research problems, lack of previous research experience, the relationship between the variables is not clear, and lack of theoretical basis, in this case fine research, there will be a loss of one or the other, as well as a waste of time, funds and manpower. There are many ways to belong to this type of research, such as participation in observation, unstructured interviews, literature review, case analysis, etc., which are often small-scale research activities.
Descriptive Research (Descriptive Research)
Descriptive research, also known as narrative research, refers to the research that correctly describes the characteristics or overall picture of some general or certain phenomena, and the task is to collect data, find out the situation, provide information, and describe the main laws and characteristics from the chaotic phenomena. The focus is not on why such a distribution exists, but on the accuracy and generality of the description (narrative) of the distribution. The difference between descriptive research and exploratory research is its systematic, structural and comprehensive nature, as well as the large sample size of the study. Generally, it is a planned, purposeful, directional, and more detailed outline of the research, the collection of data is mainly a closed-ended question-based questionnaire survey, and the use of statistical methods to process the data, to obtain a variety of results based on numbers, and to infer them to the overall, both with the sample data of the study to illustrate the overall situation. Much research in education is amenable to narrative research. There are many ways to belong to this type of research, such as surveys, case studies, comparative studies, correlation studies, and development studies.