Explanatory Research
Explanatory Research
To come up with the issue that is already known to us or we also have the description of it, we may be begin from the why question i.e. why the things the way they are. The explanation of the desire to know “why” is the major purpose of basic research. It is to identify the reason of something happen and builds on exploratory & descriptive research.
When researcher needs to find the causes and reason behind something, explanatory research is need to be conducted. For example, through an exploratory research we have identified that parents abuses their children, through a descriptive research we discovered that 10% of the parents abuse their children, so through the explanatory research we can find or may be more interested to find why parents abuse their children.
Goals of Explanatory Research
- It is to explain thing not just reporting. To present the theory with more explanation.
- To determine the best explanations from several.
- To determine that how accurate a theory that already presented.
- To collect advanced knowledge about underlying process.
- To extend a theory in new areas and topics.
- To provide evidence on an explanation whether to support or criticize it.