Are you a Developer or a Researcher?

 Are you a Developer or a Researcher?

in Guide for Thesis

When you serve as a developer such as a Secretary-General of the UN, you try to develop a learning center of the UN for all institutes or all people in the world. when you serve as the prime minister of Thailand, you try to develop a learning Center for all target institutes and all people.  The UN and the Prime Minister of Thailand are not concerned about the specific Treatment/prototype(The Learning Cen. They are not worried about the effectiveness of the learning center(dependent variables).

 

When you serve as a researcher; the research committee may ask you about the treatment/the Independent variable; whether it is an extraordinary operation; Specific knowledge, specific activities, specific target group, and creativity. They also ask you about dependent variables; understanding, satisfaction, and performance of the target groups after you give them the intervention/treatment.

 

In the research pattern, you should scope or define the limitation of the study; who are the target groups of the study (  sixty thousand primary schools, 900 Vocational Schools, 250 Universities, 150 international Schools, or  6 million students in Thailand,  etc.)

After you define the target group, specific knowledge, and specific activities, you must determine the sample size and the sampling techniques, and then the measurement design; what variables are going to be measured; (1)understanding, (2) satisfaction, and (3) performance of the target groups and how to measure them( such as using questionnaire, test, etc., how about the language of the questionnaire etc.

 

Without a specific research scope, it will be tough to come up with specific creative strategies, and difficult to measure the dependent variable. Most importantly, if it can be done, it will take a lot of time and resources.

If we clearly define the research scope, develop innovative prototypes creatively, and have reliable methods to check their effectiveness, after the completion of our research project, it is a matter of applying the learning center more widely in the future.

 

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