Question

You are working for a community development organization in a city with high rates of unemployment, poverty, high school attrition, and juvenile delinquency. Your organization wants to begin an afternoon computer training program for young people. Explain how descriptive, exploratory, explanatory, and evaluation research can all be used to help start and later maintain this program.

Answer 1

Exploratory research is performed when researcher has got some idea and tries to prepare the groundwork for fututre research which can explain the reasons behind observed idea. For community exploratory research will prepare the ground work to understand the problems of people and hypothetical explaination for them.

Descriptive research now can explain with somewhat more certainity what the problem is and can help design the proper intervention. Though decriptive research cannot tell with 100 % certainity but it clearly explains what and how of the problem.

Once described , problem can be expained with utmost understanding through explainatory research . In this research future coarse of action for improvement of condition of people can be clearly stated and planned intervention must be explained to all the people.

Evalaution research will help in evaluating the effectiveness of intervention. It will help identify any mistakes and also provide platform for maintainnace of successfull interventions.

The combination of all the 4 researches will help identify the problem and devise effective strategy to overcome poverty , unemployment etc. and maintain those intervention with improved efficiency .