Comparison of Basic and Applied Research
The techniques and procedures utilized by the basic and applied researcher do not differ a lot. Both used scientific methods to answer the questions. The primary consumer of basic research is the scientific community. On the other hand practitioners such as teachers, counselors, and decision maker like managers, committees and other officials are the consumers of applied research. Mostly results of applied research used by someone other than a researcher who needs to conduct study. This shows that applied researchers have a liability to translate finding from scientific technical language into decision maker’s language or practitioner’s language. Mostly the applied research results do not enter into the public domain for publications. These results may only be available to a little number of decision makers or practitioners, and they let decide that how to put the research results into practice or whether use the results or not.
Different orientations being adopted towards research methodology by applied and basic researcher. Basic researcher tries to conduct utmost perfect research and emphasize high standards. While applied researcher may compromise scientific accuracy to get quick and useable results. The make more tradeoffs. But the compromise doesn’t mean to conduct a poor research however, applied researcher squeeze research into the limitation of an applied setting and balance rigidity against practical needs. For such balancing an in-depth knowledge of research and awareness of consequences of compromising standards required.
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