Research Design

 

 Research design:

 classification

The research the design may be classified into exploratory, descriptive and conclusive (cause and effect)

Exploratory:

Exploratory research design is commonly known as unstructured informal research. It is done to know more information when the researcher doesn’t know much about the problem. It is qualitative.

Result: tentative

 Conclusive:

Conclusive research design is a structured design and formal. Research is structured and formal. Sample size is high. Data analysis is quantitative. Result: conclusive

Explorative research is classified into two

1.      Direct

2.      Indirect

 Direct they are two kinds

1.    Focus group interviews: non-structured and natural manner. Example: group discussion

2.   Depth interviews: non-structured Example: personal interviews. In here the questions are open-ended questions. Example: How do you see your future?

In direct, there is one kind

1. Projective techniques

Again in projective techniques they are four kinds

 1.       Association

2.      Completion

3.      Construction

4.    Expressive

1.   Association: respond with the first thing that comes to mind. Example: word association

2. Completion: In text related they will show a story and asks us to complete the story.

3. construction: Picture related by using cartoon test Using picture response. By giving a scenario they will ask us to construct the story.

4. Expressive: Techniques in which respondents have presented a verbal or visual situation and asked to relate the feelings and attitudes of other people to the situation. Example: roleplay