RESEARCH DESIGN

by: NORMA L. MENEZ, PhD

 Research Design
Research design is a plan, structure and
strategy of investigation to obtain answers
to research objectives/ questions or
problems.
It is a detailed plan on how a research
study is to be completed so they can be
measured, selecting a sample of interest to
study, collecting data to be used as a basis
for testing hypothesis and analyzing the
results.

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How to write ?

Do not purposely start a new page for this section. Simply center
the word Methods and continue typing on the very next double-spaced line

(i.e., do not insert any extra blank lines here).
The purpose of this section is to describe in detail how you
performed the study.

What to include in the Methods?

Research design

Respondents /Participants of the Study

Data Gathering Instrument

Data Gathering Procedure

Data Analysis

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 (Sample format)
Methods

Research Design
This study will use the descriptive research method
in determining the/ identifying the/ ________
( state the major objective of your paper ; instead of
defining descriptive research )

(After the proposal of the research)

This study used the ___________

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 Subjects/Participants

This section is labeled as subjects or participants depending on whether

animals or humans are used in the study. If animals are used, use the
term subjects. If humans are used, use the term participants.

Do not purposely start a new page for this section. Type the appropriate
title for this subsection flush with the left margin , On the next line,
begin typing normal paragraphs.

Indicate who participated in the study, how many, and how were they
selected.

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 Data Gathering Instrument
Do not purposely start a new paragraph , on the next line, begin typing normal paragraphs.

State the instrument as standardized, patterned from past studies or self made

Carefully summarize steps of how you validate it..( Cronbach Alpa)

Data Gathering Procedure

Step by step execution in handling validation( external and internal) of the study.

Indicate questionnaire distribution/ retrieval

Indicate whether you also subject your respondents to focus group discussions/ interview

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 Data Analysis
Do not purposely start a new page for this section.
Type the word Data Analysis flush with the left
margin, On the next line ,begin typing normal
paragraphs

Discuss the how the data will be subjected to

analysis
(refer to the statistics Center for the appropriate
tools to be used)

You may oy may not include the formula and Likert

scale equivalent
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