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RESEARCH SERVICES POLICIES AND

GUIDELINES

A. General Policy Statement

In consonance with its mandate to perform the trifocal functions of instruction, research and
extension, the University provides and adopts guiding principles and policy guidelines in the
management for its R&D projects. These are geared for developing inquisitive and critical
thinking among faculty, staff and students; generate knowledge and technology to advance
the frontiers of knowledge, promote and facilitate the dissemination and utilization of research
results.

B. Basic Concepts and Research Categories

1. Definition of Terms

The following terms are to be understood and interpreted as used in this research operation
manual.

● Research is a systematic, objective, and critical investigation of available information
directed at the search for new knowledge or its advancement including its practical
applications.

● Development is a systematic work, drawing on existing knowledge gained from research
and/or practical experience that is directed to producing new materials, products or
devices, to installing new processes, systems and services, and to improving substantially
those already produced or installed.

● Social science research is a research conducted to seek understanding of social
behaviors and relationships of individual members in and to society and generally
regarded as including researches in sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics,
political science, history and related disciplines given their relevance for development.

● Education research refers to high quality research that nourishes the degree or level
of teaching-learning in HEI environments. It is intended to generate new knowledge

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