BACKGROUND OF THE ESM
What does "method" mean?
"Way To Go Further"
One of the most transcendental scientists in history.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1624)
Visits to places where you can observe certain phenomena as they occur in nature.
Exploration and field practices
Analyze the consequences of possible explanations.
Hypothesis
Consists of principles and procedures for the systematic search of knowledge.
Scientific Method
Is a process or series of steps to follow orderly that lead us to produce explanations to understand reality with a higher grade of certainty.
Research Method
Which are the four moments of the scientific method of resolving-composing of Galileo?
Observation, Formulation of an explanatory Hypothesis, Deduction, and Experimentation.
Element or condition that the reasearcher manipulates directly and deliberately, applying measurements and control that it monitors.
Independent Variable
Design experiments to confirm or refute possible explanations, and obtain results
Experimentation
The ______________________ broadens the description of the problem, delimits the scope od the research, expresses theories and concepts of authors, and helps sort the observations.
Theoretical framework
Method that focuses on the particular characteristics and condition of the object.
Qualitative
Type of hypothesis which cannot be verified because they are attributed to unknow forces impossible to verify.
Metaphysical Hypothesis
Offers us an overview by focusing us on one of the variables of the research problem, identifying and characterizing its particular features.
Descriptive Approach
Find a problem or event that you want to explain
Observation
Stays fixed during the experiment.
Controlled variable
Method that focuses on statistics and numerical data obtained from the observation of an object of study.
Quantitative
Type of hypothesis which adress the logical coherence of an argument to establish mathematical relationships between the phenomena observed.
Deductive Hypothesis
Element or situation in which we seek to intervene without intentionally modifying it.
Dependent Variable
Make judgements based on the study of the results.
Analysis and Conclusions
Was famous for his obsession with measurement, the systematization of his experiments and his exceptional ability tocorrelate events that seemed independent.
Antoine Lavoisier
Fundamental elements for scientific research.
Logic and Experience
Type of hypothesis that arise to adapt them to a situation and that may present some logical contradictions.
Ad hoc Hypothesis
It is used to know antecedents, and previous descriptions about the problem addressed.
Documentary Inquiry
Define the specific questions of the problem to investigate
Statement of the Problem
Examples of fields in which the scientific method can be applied
Biology, Physics, and Chemistry