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Understanding Research Design Essentials

Research design is a systematic plan that guides the collection, measurement, and analysis of data in a research study. It involves selecting a problem, reviewing literature, determining the nature and objectives of the study, and establishing a sampling design. Key features include relevance to the research purpose, budget considerations, and various types of research designs such as exploratory, descriptive, and experimental.

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Understanding Research Design Essentials

Research design is a systematic plan that guides the collection, measurement, and analysis of data in a research study. It involves selecting a problem, reviewing literature, determining the nature and objectives of the study, and establishing a sampling design. Key features include relevance to the research purpose, budget considerations, and various types of research designs such as exploratory, descriptive, and experimental.

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Research Design

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Research design -Meaning
• Blue print for the collection ,
measurement and analysis of data
• Logical and systematic plan prepared
for directing a research study.
Research design -Meaning
• A research design is a program that
guides the investigator in the process
of collecting, analyzing and
interpreting the observations.
• A research design is the arrangement
of conditions for collection and
analysis of data in a manner that
aims to combine relevance to the
research purpose with economy in
procedure.
• What is the study about?
• Why is the study being made?
• Where will the study be carried out?
• What type of data is required?
• Where can the required data can
found?
• What periods of time will the study
include?
• What will be the sample design?
• What techniques of data collection
will be used?
• How will the data be analysed?
Features of research design
• It is a plan that denotes the sources
and types of information relevant to
the research problem
• It is a strategy, which specifies the
approach used for gathering and
analysing the data
• It comprises the time and cost
budgets since most studies are done
under these limitations
• It depends upon the purpose of
research
Stages of research design

1. Selection of a problem
2. Review of existing literature
3. Source of the information to be
utilised
4. Nature of study
5. Objectives of the study
6. Geographical area to be covered
Stages of research design

7. Socio cultural context of the study


8. Period of the study
9. Dimension of study (limitation also)
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Selection of a problem

• Exploratory design- if the problem is


an exploratory one
• Descriptive design- if the problem is
to depict the distinctiveness of
groups or situations
• Diagnostic design- if the study intend
to get a solution for a particular
problem
Selection of a problem

• Historical design – if the problem


involves historical analysis
• Experimental design – if the
researcher wants to test a hypothesis
of causal relationship between
variables
Sampling Design
• Definite plan for obtaining sample
from a given population
• Gerald Hersh “ A sample design is a
theoretical basis and practical means
by which we infer the characteristics
of some population by generalising
from the characteristics of relatively
few of the units comprising the
population”
Steps
• Define the population or universe
• State the sampling frame
• Identify the sample unit
• State the sampling method
• Determine the sample size
• Spell out the sampling plan
• Select the sample

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