1- Scientific Research System – Foundations, Components, and Planning
2- ISBN: 978-9933-532-99-4
3- Author: Mohamed Ziad Hamdan
4- Publisher: Modern Education House – Damascus (2015)
5- Language: Arabic
6- Pages: 194 pp.
7- Price: 15$
ABSTRACT
Scientific research is an objective investigative behavior aimed at uncovering the truth about people, events, and things, understanding their conditions, improving their performance, or advancing their future. It is thus a means of overcoming a cognitive, practical, or life-related difficulty for an individual or institution, or of overcoming immediate obstacles that may be anticipated for the future. It is an effective tool for the advancement of individuals and groups and, at the same time, an indicator of their cultural behavioral progress within their internal and external environments. In this book, we have examined scientific research from its current state, then endeavored to advance it in concept and procedure for the better by presenting it in the form of a behavioral system and scientific concepts, which are briefly as follows:
1. The scientific research system. This means that it is a studied human behavior characterized by precision, control, and measurability, with its own inputs, processes, outputs, and specific qualitative and procedural controls. The book’s ten chapters, appendices, and references embody this systematic, purposeful research methodology.
2. Scientific research as an integrated behavior. Many scientific research sources (at least those available to the author) have addressed the subject in scattered, non-procedural forms. Some specialize in research methods or sources, others in research planning, a third in data analysis (mostly statistically), a fourth in research reports, a fifth, a few in evaluation and its tools, and a sixth, a rare one, in the statistical analysis of discontinuous qualitative data or data not normally distributed or of unknown distribution.
The scientific research methodology addressed in this book, Book 7, with its five chapters, and its subsequent twin, Book 8: Conducting Scientific Research, with its five chapters, is, in contrast, systematic and integrated, based on calculated steps.
* Documenting the book’s material: The book’s material includes what we see and what others see in the field of scientific research. Documented information embodies what we see and what others see, while its other counterparts directly represent what we see, and we thus bear scientific and literary responsibility for it.
Documentation is the foundation of science. Therefore, we have strived to document everything, including our previous academic and scientific knowledge, with the aim of providing further detail to the reader, if desired, while simultaneously aligning with our established scientific research methodology.
* Using the book: The research methodology presented in this book consists of sequential concepts and procedural processes that build upon each other. Therefore, we suggest that before an individual undertakes effective research (one that is appropriate for the problem or topic they are addressing and effective in solving it), they should carefully and carefully read the book’s content in general, then implement some concepts and procedures in the form of rehearsals and simulated situations. This will result in effective confidence in the required research: planning, management, analysis, interpretation, reporting, and evaluation of results.
The 194-page book, “Scientific Research System,” along with its 254-page counterpart, “Conducting Scientific Research,” addresses a new methodological approach, both conceptually and procedurally, as a well-studied behavioral system characterized by precision, discipline, accountability, and measurability. It has its own inputs, processes, outputs, and specific qualitative and procedural controls.
The material in this book, No. 7, and its twin, Book No. 8, present this systematic, purposeful method through calculated, sequential, and interactive steps.
This book presents five chapters with the following titles:
1. General Concepts and Procedural Issues of Scientific Research
2. The Scientific Research System – Its Components and Methods of Operation
3. Types and Methods of Scientific Research
4. Sources and Tools of Scientific Research
5. Preparing Scientific Research Plans
We hope that the content of this book will contribute to overcoming some of the difficulties encountered in scientific research in schools and universities, and will also help develop scientific research knowledge and practices in our academic and local environments in general.