To develop a technology, learning material, a drug etc. and testing its effectiveness through research.

To study intensively the background, current status, and environmental interaction of a given social unit: an individual, a group, an institution or a community.

To investigate possible cause-and-effect relationships by observing some existing consequence and looking back though data for plausible causal factors.

To describe systematically a situation or area of interest factually and accurately

To systematically investigate or statistically study the relationships among two or more variables, without necessarily determine cause and effect.

To study people, ethnic group and formations, resettlement, social welfare characteristics and culture

To predict and control a phenomena and examine probability and causality among variables employing objective, systematic and controlled investigation or experiments

To approximate the conditions of the true experiment in a setting which does not allow the control or manipulation of all relevant variables.

To analyze events that occurred in the remote of recent past

To develop new skills and approaches and to solve problems with direct application to the classroom, to the community or other applied settings.