Greetings, I am a student enrolled in a research class for Arizona State University, and we are discussing the topic of research and evaluation. For this discussion we are drawing from Mertens (2020) Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology. While I believe there is a link and they overlap, research is how we find related tops and information, while evaluation is how we add validity. Mertens stated that research is knowing and understanding while evaluation is the applied inquiry process.
I think we use a mix method approach in our research, to see what may be factual and biased and what may be just theory.
Through different approaches, how can we still maintain the discipline of being objective while not falling into a biased opinion, where we only post, follow or research an opinion that we agree with? Out of the for theories, postpositivism, constructivism, transformative and pragmatic, which would be the most effective in being open and unbiased?
Thank you for your time
Research aims to find out a result we were looking for, while evaluation is to evaluate those results already obtained by research. However, some times the evaluation looks like a research when it is aimed to compare different methods or results previously obtained by some research, so they could overlap. Regards.
Thank you, and I agree, I also think researching is interesting as that is how we find things out.
Research is the pathway of passing the knowledge for the readers & the students , which remain a guiding factor for the students in their study & also in their knowledge . Education covers the basic path of the prescribe study matter for which student of higher education may take the advantage of knowledge of research .
This is my personal opinion
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