摘要：The present paper attempts to examine and explore the actualities & possibilities of quality improvement in Research work by using Information Communication Technology. The innovation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has revolutionized every spare of education including educational research. ICT not only provides help to researchers prior to initiation of the research work but also during the process and after the completion of the study too. The software packages & other ICT tools happen to help researcher in every step of the research i.e. gap finding, review of related literature, data collection, data analysis, report writing and, the last but not the least, presentation of the research work for written or oral communication. Inputs from ICT provide a major source for gap finding or identification of the problem. There are numerous e-books, e-journals & other reading material available on internet, Books which are out of print, at present can also be searched through internet. These days facility of e-library is available which can be accessed from home itself. Inflibnet and Delnet are the national networks which provide researcher with online and CD ROM database. These sources help the researcher both in qualitative and quantitative kinds of research. The advent of ICT has changed the very face of the process of data collections as well. Researchers need not approach the subjects in face to face mode for getting their responses to research tools, but can secure data through virtual means. Data can be collected through developed online tests, questionnaires and Computer Assisted Telephonic Interviews. Data so collected can be analysed quickly and accurately using various statistical software packages. Some of the packages used for data analysis are: SPSS, SAS, Minitab and MS-Excel. Also Web Based statistics softwares i.e. Survey Documentation Analysis can be used for analysing data. Computational errors can be eliminated through use of these softwares. Testing the underlying assumptions of the test like normality of the data and homogeneity poses no problem. Some the latest versions of the softwares provide not only results but the interpretation of the results, i.e. the rejection or non rejection of the hypothesis. After the completion of the research process, ICT helps to organise the entire research work in either hard copy or soft copy. Researchers can publish their research work in e-journals. It immediately makes the result of the research available to the academic and administrative community to use them for the betterment of the society.
