MANAGING DESIGN

MANAGING DESIGN

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH DESIGN

Research Design is to ensure that the evidence obtained enables us to effectively address the research problem logically and unambiguously as possible.

Social Science research is to obtaining information relevant to research problem generally entails to test a story, to evaluate a program, to accurately describe and asses meaning related to an observable phenomenon.

FORMS OF RESEARCH

Research is a systematic inquiry used to describe, explain, predict and control.

There 4 main forms based on specific purpose :

1.Basic research- Descriptive in nature and is used to understand and explain phenomenon
                          - often conducted for the sake of increasing and advancing a knowledge base

2. Applied research- to provide information that can be used and applied in an effort to help people to understand and control their environment
                                - more prescriptive in nature and seek to offer potential solutions to problem

3. Evaluation research- to examine the processes and outcomes associated with particular solution to a problem
                                   - may be formative-to improve solution or summative- to evaluate the effectiveness

4. Action research- often conducted within a program/organization/community(researcher are involved in gathering data and studying themselves.

There are two main approaches to a research problem- quantitative and qualitative methods,

1. Quantitative methods are used to examine the relationship between variables with the primary goal being analyse and represent that relationship mathematically through statistical analysis.

2. Qualitative methods chosen are chosen when goal of the research problem is to examine, understand and describe a phenomenon. These methods are a common choice in social science research problems and are often study ideas, belief, human behaviours and other research questions that not involve studying the relationship between variables.