Difficulties Encountered in the Conduct of Student Researches

International journal of english, literature and social science, 2019

This study determined the Research Difficulties encountered by selected Business Administration students while doing their Research study. The study is Descriptive in nature. Survey questionnaire and Convenience sampling were utilized in data gathering. For the Data treatment and analysis, frequency count, percentages and weighted mean were utilized. The result of the study revealed that majority of the respondents encountered difficulty on Linguistic aspect. Keywords-linguistic; research difficulty; research study. I. INTRODUCTION Research study is a scholarly work aiming at determining and analyzing a certain situation and practices. It is often done to be used as a basis for discovery, enhancement, anticipation, intervention and recommendations. Every Industry is into research study to keep abreast of the Industry needs and demands regardless of the nature of the organization. Research Writing is included in the Tertiary Curriculum to enhance students' research capabilities and to prepare them for the Industry needs in the future. The task is a significant and tedious one. Researchers should be cautious and diligent in order to come up with the right conclusion and output. This is not easy for there are a lot of difficulties often encountered by researchers that somehow hindered the completion of the task. As mentioned by Alsharif, Nordin and Ismail (2013) students experience challenges during the research process. Hence, a Research study was conducted in order to determine the Research Difficulties encountered by Business Administration students. As stated by Bocar (2013) since Research Writing is one of the academic requirements students and professors have no choice but to deal with it. The likelihood of Research study being completed will be greater if Research Professors will be of help to the students in dealing with the Research difficulties encountered.

The Educational Review, USA

The current study investigated the issues and difficulties confronted by research scholars during conceptualizing their research and drafting synopsis in English linguistic discipline. Doing research is a mammoth but painstaking task but can be performed well if executed systematically and logically. Students at M. Phil level of education have to undergo valid and authentic research as pre requisite of their terminal degree. However, they face many difficulties during different phases and stages of their researches; major stages of research are conceptualization and operationalization. The present study identified the problems faced during conceptual phase of the research. The study was descriptive in its design and preferred to collect and analyze the data quantitatively. A representative sample of 100 students and 20 teachers was taken through applying random and convenient sampling techniques respectively. The findings obtained after analysis of the data reflect that students face a large of problems while planning their research. The nature of these problems is spread out from internally driven capacity and competency levels to externally driven interpersonal, institutional and financial components. The study concludes with strong recommendations of factual research facilitations for the research scholars at the very initial stage of their research planning. It is also suggested to provide financial and technical assistance to the prospective researchers so that they may carry out their research with ease, comfort and peace of mind.

Doing research at the final level of college is a requirement for graduating as an undergraduate. Students need deep understanding and direction to be able to solve a thing they are facing for the first time. In this study, researchers interviewed students from several private universities in Bali qualitatively to find answers. Respondents stated that their views on research were indeed only a requirement to complete their studies. The guidance that is obtained is still very lacking, so it cannot support understanding in completing the thesis. Respondents also admitted to completing research by themselves, or studying together and asking their seniors who had previously completed their research obligations. Because basically, all things need direction from those who know more or understand more so that they can be resolved properly. Especially in terms of research where a problem solver is of course the most sought after when a complicated problem occurs to find the cause and even how to solve it. It is in situations like this that "research" activities are needed to train an individual's skills.

Scholars Bulletin, 2022

Research is one of the means by which we seek to discover the truth. It is based upon the tacit assumption that the world is a cosmos whose happenings have causes and are controlled by forces and relationships that can be expressed as laws and principles. Discovery of these controls of nature provides us with a hunting license to search for ways of controlling our environment. To search for truth in a scientific way research methodology provides principles to refine our common beliefs through research activity that establishes rules of logical and appropriate reasoning. In order to apply the scientific research methodology properly in research work, the researcher must have a clear basic concept of research methodology & methods that will ensure to find potential research results. This paper deals with the conceptuality of the research methodology like the meaning of the research, objectives of research, motivation in research and types of research. The basic approaches to research,...

Acitya : Journal of Teaching and Education, 2023

This research aimed to determine undergraduate students' problems and factors causing the problems in writing a research proposal. Ninety-one English Education Study Program undergraduate students in FKIP Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak, West Kalimantan, participated in this research. This descriptive research used forty items in a questionnaire as the instrument modified from Dwihandini, Marhaeni, and Suarnajaya's (2013) model. The model utilized three factors causing students' problems in writing a research proposal, namely (1) psychological factors, (2) socio-cultural factors, and (3) linguistic factors. To report the findings of the results, the researcher used the descriptive statistics technique to display each factor's percentage score. The findings indicated that the score of linguistic factors got the highest (75,49%), which highly affected students' writing in research proposals. The conclusion is each factor causes problems, so it affects students in writing a research proposal, and linguistic factors become the dominant factor among others.

Journal of Xidian University, 2022

Background: Research process and data analysis has been studied widely in academic and business surrounding since its starting point but the most students do not care about the book learning of concept, need and direction of the research. To move the new area of exploration in every fields of life, the student need to acquire/develop awareness about recognition, description and solutions of the problems regarding decision making process. The aim of this study is to review the process of research and steps involved in data analysis. This study teaches how to select a research design, how to make conceptual framework, and how to plan analysis of data .This study guides to understand the evaluation of assumption of research, assess the fitness of model and interpretation of variables. This study provides proper knowledge about research plans and statistical software's such as AMOS, SPSS and EViews, which help the student and researchers to integrate the methods in all area of research process so that, they could successfully complete their research projects and articles. Purpose of the Research: The purpose of this study is to provide the familiarity and necessary skills for the students and researchers in completing their research project and decision making process .The main objective of this study is to put emphasis on the need of learning research process for the student of developing nations and help the students, managers, researchers and, policy makers to learn how to conduct research and prepare reports or present suggestions to solve the problems and improve the performance of their related filed. Design/Methodology/Approach: This is a literature based review study and articles and case studies have been reviewed for this study. Finding: This study gives emphasize the need of learning the process of research. A good student always think about all the problems present in him/her Society and look into all alternates than try to give best solution of these problems. This study give emphasizes to follow the research ethics though out our research work and help the students and researchers about how to explain the problem, how to define the purposes of the research, how to identify the variables and relate them with the objectives of the results as well as it teach how to collect and analyze the data to produce valuable suggestions from the results of your research work. Implications/Originality/Value: It is concluded that without learning an appropriate research mythology and data analysis, a student could not write a research project successfully and a manger may damage the performance of his/her organization by taking wrong decision. So this study motivate the reader to conduct research before decision making process, .it stress that

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APTISI Transactions on Management, 2018

In the process of job management, many problems are faced. So that good management is needed, which is required to provide problem solving. Problem solving is done by conducting research on objects, in order to produce quality management. Research is a way to objectively seek truth, where truth here is not only conceptually or deductively obtained, but also must be tested empirically. The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of 10 (ten) basic research, as a form of research management, namely the understanding of research, research, research steps, motivation and research objectives, research processes, characteristics of research, preliminary studies, benefits and objectives preliminary studies, how to conduct preliminary studies, concepts of research methods and methodologies.

Open University Research Sessions, 2021

The Open University of Sri Lanka conducts its programmes through Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode. It is very important to identify numerous ways that can be implemented within ODL environment to support students continuously especially when doing research because research, by its nature, is a critical challenging task. This paper attempts to identify the difficulties that are faced by undergraduates when they are completing research projects. The study target group comprised all the undergraduates in the final year in B. Ed Honours in Natural Sciences, Drama and Theatre and Special Needs Education programmes in the Faculty of Education. Around 100 students who conducted their action research projects and two programme coordinators of the programmes participated in the study. The Research tools of the study included an online survey questionnaire for students and interviews for coordinators. Data were analyzed statistically using percentages and descriptively. The results revealed that 45.8% of the participants have difficulties in identifying the research problem. Around 42% have difficulties in finding relevant literature in their mother language. The study explored various common difficulties such as academic writing (51.4%); limited amount of library facilities in the regional and study centers (43%); difficulties related to meet the supervisors (84.7%); difficulties to manage the research work due to the family commitments and issues related to the occupation (86.1%); difficulties with time management (47.2%); difficult to travel long distance to the university (48.6%); less support from the school community and lack of resources (66.6%). The study also attempts to give some suggestions for developing the process of writing research proposals and completing research projects such as conducting Zoom meetings, providing learning resources through Learner management system (LMS); through email; through WhatsApp; Viber and other relevant modes which are suitable to ODL environment, enhance library facilities provide more practice in academic writing; provide supervisor-student meeting schedules at the beginning of the research to facilitate the completion of the research projects and to develop faculty level guidelines for action research project component of B.Ed programmes.