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Module 6: The Design and Planning Phase

Introduction

Design refers to the plan, structure, and strategy of
investigation so conceived as to obtain answer to research
questions or problems. It is the complete scheme or program of
the research. It includes an outline of what the investigator
will do from writing the hypothesis and their operational
implications to the final analysis of data.

Learning Outcome

At the end of the module, the student will be able to
plan the methodology for their research study.

Learning Content

Research Design

It is the researcher's plan of how the study will
conducted, the type of data that will be collected, the
techniques or the means to be used to obtain these data, the
reasons for the choice of the subjects, the manner of determining
sample size, the instruments to be used and their validation,
and the data analysis scheme which includes the application of
the statistical tools for treatment of data arising from the
study. These are determined after variables are identified and
quantified.

Selecting a Research Design

1. Logically sound;
2. Comprehensive enough to solve the problem;

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