1.2 Aims, objectives and characteristics of research methodology in general with special
      reference to the educational realm.

The study of the research methods aims to aid the search in a development its abilities of understanding the kinds of research, the awareness of the concepts, the bases and the styles, that the scientific research based on. Such study is necessary to postgraduate students that helps them in the sound choice of problem, defining it and forming its hypotheses and defining the most suitable styles of its study.

The study of the research methodology has many objectives, as follows:

1.2 Aims, objectives and characteristics of research methodology in general with special
      reference to the educational realm.

No doubt, the scientific research in the education as in other scientific researches, aims at searching for the knowledge.

1.2 Aims, objectives and characteristics of research methodology in general with special
      reference to the educational realm.

There are many purposes to search in education among of them:

1.	The appreciation of the scientific research, and the development of positive general trends, towards the

scientific way for the study among the postgraduate researchers in the education.

2.	The preparation of a generation of the efficient researchers in the educational field, supplied with the basic

principles to the scientific research and its tools.

3.	The professional growth based on a scientific base, and that by:

a.

The development of the ability of the recognition of the professional problems.

b.

The development of the ability to define the sources of the collection of the information necessary for

solving the professional problems.

c.

Identifying the suitable scientific ways for solving the professional problems.

d.

The development of the ability of following-up, an understanding and the evaluation of the scientific

researches.

e.

The development of the ability of the application of the scientific researches results and benefiting from

them.

1.2 Aims, objectives and characteristics of research methodology in general with special
      reference to the educational realm.

4.	The attempt of the arrival at a high level in writing the scientific thesis in the educational field.

5.	The practical training on the scientific researches in the educational field.

The characteristics of Educational Research:
The educational research is distinguished by several characteristics such as:

1.	The educational research is an organized search, away from the chance, and it is an accurate, mental,

planned activity has reliable results.

2.	A theoretical study because it uses the theories to realize the relations and is submitted to the

experimentation and the test.

3.	An experimental search depends on the basis of experiments and testing the hypotheses.

4.	An explanatory research because it uses the scientific knowledge to interpret phenomena and matters by

the theories.

5.	A renewing research always includes a renewal, and additions to the knowledge by a continuous replacing

the old knowledge with the recent knowledge.

6.	The educational scientific research is characterized by the generality, because the information and the

knowledge don't acquire their scientific quality unless they are generalized researches.