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Understanding Pilot Studies in Research

The document discusses the purpose and advantages of conducting a pilot study before embarking on a major research project. A pilot study tests the research methodology on a small scale to identify potential problems, assess the effectiveness of survey instruments and training, and estimate costs and time requirements. Conducting a pilot study allows researchers to improve the research design, questionnaire, sampling approach, and interviewer training before implementing the full project. While a pilot study uses a small sample and cannot be generalized, it provides valuable insights to help ensure the successful execution of the larger research study.

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Understanding Pilot Studies in Research

The document discusses the purpose and advantages of conducting a pilot study before embarking on a major research project. A pilot study tests the research methodology on a small scale to identify potential problems, assess the effectiveness of survey instruments and training, and estimate costs and time requirements. Conducting a pilot study allows researchers to improve the research design, questionnaire, sampling approach, and interviewer training before implementing the full project. While a pilot study uses a small sample and cannot be generalized, it provides valuable insights to help ensure the successful execution of the larger research study.

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PILOT STUDY

D S AJETHA
Introduction
• The desired to search and research for new
knowledge and improvement in the existing
ones.
• The pilot study is a small preliminary
investigation of the same general character as
the major study.
• It is a miniature trial run of the methodology
planned for the major project.
Purpose of the pilot study:
• To make improvement in the research project.
• To detect problems that must be eradicated
before the major study is attempted.
Advantages :
• It provide information about the completeness, accuracy and
convenience of the sampling frame from which it is
proposed to select the sample.
• It unfolds the variability within the population to the
surveyed studies.
• It helps in bringing out the inadequacies of the draft
questionnaire.
• It shows how effective the training has been in ridding the
interviewers.
• It helps in distinguishing the serious type of interviewers
from the cheat.
Cont....

• It allays the interviewers fears about overtly sensitive


questions and built their self- confidence.
• It tests interviewers stamina to work under conditions
of personal discomfort, stress and fatigue.
• It test the efficiency of the survey organisation in the
field, including the type of supervision and instruction.
• It helps to identify the need for different kinds of
equipments which are necessary during project.
• It provides data for making estimates of time and
costs for completing various phases of the project and
shows way to effect saving.
Disadvantages:
• Pilot study is done with only a small sample.
• It cannot be generalised.
• The cost is more.
• Behaviour change could occur.
Pilot study results
• It is always the influence of the fact finding
principle.
• The possibility of the fact finding can occurs
makes the pilot study valuable.
Failure of the pilot study
• The pilot study using in artificial situation.
• The sample size is large enough. The larger
number of sample are necessary to point out
certain errors.
• 10% of the total sample is necessary to get an
appropriate result.
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