Research Methods The Basics -Nicholas Walliman (Eng) 1.47 MB.pdfĤ. Research Methods in PsychologyIndex 6MB.pdfĦ. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES (Eng) 1.02 MB.pdfħ. Research Methodology C R Kothari (Eng) 1.81 MB.pdfĨ.
Research Methodology Ranjit kumar (Eng) 7.08 MB.pdfĩ. Fundamental of Research Methodology and Statistics MB.pdfġ0. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (Eng) 11.5 MB.pdfġ1.The research methodology is the systematic, theoretical analysis of the procedures applied to a field of study (Kothari, 2004). It involves procedures of describing, explaining and predicting phenomena so as to solve a problem it is the ‘hows’ the process or techniques of conducting research. A Methodology does not set out to provide solutions but offers the theoretical underpinning for understanding which procedure, set of procedures can be applied to a specific case.
Research methodology encompasses concepts such as research designs, target population, sample size and sampling procedure, data collection instruments and data analysis procedure. The research design refers to the overall strategy that one may choose to integrate the different components of the study in a coherent and logical way. This is done in order to ensure that one effectively addresses the research problem.
Research design constitutes the blueprint or the roadmap for the collection, measurement, and analysis of data. According to Kothari (2004), research design is a plan, a roadmap and blueprint strategy of investigation conceived so as to obtain answers to research questions (Kothari, 2004), it is the heart of any study. Students of research (and even practitioners) more often than not confuse between research designs and research approaches. Research design is a model or an action plan upon which the entire study is built dictates the manner in which a study is conducted and provides the road map of a study in terms of the sample, data collection instruments and analysis procedure. Approaches on the other hand, are paradigms, research frameworks, which may be either quantitative or qualitative or both (mixed approach (Creswell, 2003)).
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