What is Hypothesis?

It is a wise guess prepared and temporarily adopted to explain the observed factors covered by the study.  

It is a tentative conclusion or answer to a specific question raised at the beginning of the investigation.

Hypothesis helps the researcher in designing the study such as the methods, research instruments, and sampling design to be used as well as the data to be gathered. It also use as bases for determining assumptions and for the explanation about the data gathered.

Forms of Hypothesis

1. Operational Form – It is stated in the affirmative.  It states that there is a difference between two phenomena

2. Null Form – It is stated in the negative. It states that there is no difference between the two phenomena. It is more commonly used.

Examples:

Question:
Is there any significant difference between the perceptions of the teachers and those of the students concerning the different aspects in the teaching of science?

Operational hypothesis
There is a significant difference between the perceptions of the teachers and those of the students concerning the different aspects in the teaching of science.

Null hypothesis
There is no significant difference between the perceptions of the teachers and those of the students concerning the different aspects in the teaching of science.

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What is Research?

                Research is defined as a careful, systematic study in a field of knowledge, undertaken to discover or establish facts or principles. It is also defined as a systematic process of collecting and analysing data to find an answer to a question or a solution to a problem, to validate or test an existing theory.

General Types of Research

                Research can be classified into three general categories; descriptive research, correlation or association research and experimental or intervention research.

Descriptive Research

        The descriptive type of study finds an answer to the questions who, what, when, where and how. 

This type of research describes a situation or a given state of affairs in terms of specified aspects or factors. What may be described are characteristics of individuals or groups (farmers, students, administrators, entrepreneurs, patients, etc.), or conditions ( epidemic, calamities, leadership styles, anxiety level, sales and profit, productivity, etc)

The following examples of research topics in specific areas fall under the descriptive type.

      The management style of school administrators in Midsayap, North Cotabato.

      Marketing practices of the loom weaving industry in Region XII.

Explanatory or Correlation Research

                An explanatory study goes beyond description of a problem or situation. It attempts to explain the possible factors related to a problem which has been observed in a descriptive study. This type of study answers the questions why and how? The factors related to the problem, however, need not be viewed as real causes of the problem, but factors which are associated with or may contribute to the occurrence of the problem.

The researcher usually uses a theory or a hypothesis to account for or explain the forces that are “assumed to have caused” the problem.

The following examples of research topics fall under the explanatory or correlation category.

      Marketing strategies and Sales Performance of garment Industries in the province of North Cotabato.

      Employment and Income As Determinants of Loan Repayment Status of Borrowers of Credit Cooperatives in Midsayap, North Cotabato

Intervention or Experimental Research

                A type of research evaluates the effect or outcome of a particular intervention or treatment. It studies the “cause and effect” relationship between certain factors on a certain phenomenon under controlled conditions. The subjects of the study are randomly assigned to the experimental group and to the control group and both groups are exposed to similar conditions except for the intervention/treatment.

The following research problems are examples of intervention/ experimental type of research.

      Advertising: Its effect on Sales and Profit of Auto Parts Business Establishment in Midsayap”.

      The impact of the Midsayap Microfinance Projects on the Living Conditions of the Beneficiaries.”

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Basic Steps in the Research Process

How to Start a Research Project

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Current Trends in Information Technology

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Models of E-commerce, Application with respect to models, BPR & E-commerce, Creation of Ecommerce

sites (ethics) commercial/ edu / org sites.

2. Information system Security:

Threats and implications, security policy, Biometric, facial and smart cards, RFID, DSA,

Firewalls:

Kinds of firewalls: packet filters, distributed firewalls

Building firewalls (only steps).

3. Knowledge management:

W hat is KM (Components and type of knowledge), knowledge building models, KM cycle and

KM

architecture, KM tools, KM approaches- Mechanist, cultural/ be/ heuristic, systematic.

4. GIS:

W hat is GIS, Nature of geographic data, spatial objects and data models, getting map on

computers, GIS standards, and Standardization process of GIS-development, implementation, and

deployment phases.

5. BCP / BPO:

What is BPO/BCP, Why it is required, Guidelines, Merits/De-Merits, Lows of BPO -Non

disclosure agreements, SLA (Service Level Agreements), Call center – brief perspective

technology wise?

6. E- Banking:

ICIICI. Com, HDFC.com, Electronic Payments, Securities in E-banking

Services Provided

- ATM

- ECS (Electronic Clearing System) e.g. Telephone, Electricity bills (6 hrs.)

7. E- Speak:

E- learning- Models (WBT, CBT, distance learning), LMS & LCMS,

Video Conferencing, Chat, bulleting, building inline community,

Asynchronous/Synchronous Learning

E- Logistics – Maharashtra.gov.in, Logistics & Supplier Chain Management, Warehousing

Management, Transportation Management, Information & Communication Technology, How set

up layers (Extranet, Intranet, Internet), Dynamiclogistics.Com , Samsung.com

E-Governance - What is E- Governance, Models (G2B, G2C, C2G, G2G), Challenges to EGovernance,

Strategy and tactics for implementation of E- Governance.

8. IT Act 2000(14 countries included IT act ):

Cyber law - Issue of Computer Access, Hacking & cracking, Types of Computer criminals &

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9. Mobile Computing:

Difference between desktop and mobile computing, Mobility, Components,

WAP Architecture, Applications & Services, Security.

10. Embedded Systems:

Features & types of embedded systems, Components of Embedded system,

Applications of Embedded system, Palm devices.

11. Data mining and data Ware housing:

Architecture, OLTP & OLAP

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is dead. The Apple chairman and former CEO who made personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and digital animation mass-market products.


Steven P. Jobs passed away on Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. 


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Internet

The Internet ranks as a "top source of information for most" local matters of interest — from housing to jobs.

A new report finds. "The rise of search engines and specialty websites for different topics like weather, job postings, businesses and even e-government have fractured and enriched the local news and information environment,” said Lee Rainie, a co-author of the study and director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

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