1. RESEARCH DESIGN

2. GROUP NO 7
Dattatrey shinde
Gayatri Umarye
Namita kafaliya
Omkar thamboli
Pradnya Shetty
Sagar sambare
Sakshi sontakke
Shilpa susan
Shruthi rajan
Subin luckose

3. CONTENT
 Meaning of research design.
 Need for & importance of research design.
 Developing an appropriate research design.

4. MEANING
 Arrangement of conditions.
 Overall framework of the projects.
 Specific master plan or model.
 Blueprint .
 Guides the investigators.

5. DEFINITION
 According to Suchman “research design is not a
highly specific plan to be followed without deviation
,but rather series of guidepost to keep one headed
in right direction”.
 According to cook “research design is the
arrangement of conditions for collection & analysis
of data in a manner that aims to combine relevance
to the research purpose with economy in
procedure”.

6. NEED & IMPORTANCE
 Smooth sailing of research operations.
 Stands for advance planning of the methods.
 Great bearing on reliability of the results.
 Helps to give directions.
 Helps in decision making.
 Research design prevent blind searching.
 Helps researchers to anticipate potential problems
in collecting data etc.

7. DEVELOPING RESEARCH DESIGN
 The choice of appropriate design largely depends
on the objectives of the research and how much is
knownabout the problem and its objectives.
 Three traditional kinds of research-design:
 Exploratory
 Descriptive
 Hypothesis/casual.
.

8. IN CASE OF EXPLORATORY RESEARCH
 Main objective: Major emphasis is on discovery of
ideas & insights.
 In such studies:
 The sample size is small
 Data requirement are vague.
 The objective is general rather than specific.
 Non- probability sampling designs are used.

9. IN CASE OF DESCRIPTIVE
 Main objective: Describing characteristics of
individual or group
 In such studies:
 Data collected may relate to the respondents under
study
 Research has specific objective
 Findings are definite.

10. IN CASE OF HYPOTHESIS TESTING
 Main objective:Researchers test the hypotheses of
causal relationships between variables.
 In such studies:
 Control the influence of one variable on other
dependent variable.