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Reseath Design Process PDF
Reseath Design Process PDF
Part I
Dr Brian van Wyk
POST-GRADUATE ENROLMENT AND THROUGHPUT
RESEARCH DESIGN
Research methodology
Quantitative vs. Qualitative vs. Participatory/action research
Research methods
Methods of sampling, data collection and data analysis
Research design
Experimental, descriptive, exploratory
Methodological designs
Methodological designs
Exploration
Description
Explanation
Prediction
Evaluation
History
EXPLORATORY STUDY
DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
EXPLANATORY STUDY
Question type
Question
Examples
Exploratory
questions
Descriptive
questions
Causal questions
Why?
What are the causes of y?
Evaluative
questions
Predictive
questions
Historical
questions
is
RESEARCH DESIGN VS
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
Research methodology
DIRECTIONS OF REASONING
Hypothetico-deductive logic
Ethnographic-inductive logic
Test it (findings)