- Research Design
- The design starts with the demarcation process. If you don't yet possess all the knowledge
about your topic, you will have to do a literature survey.
- Prepare your Research Design Document
- Analyse your research subquestions and look for the relevant constructs in each question.
Important is to state precisely what you want to know. Derive aspects of your constructs
and document them in your research design document. Formulate research questions.
- Finish your Research Design Document
- Having analysed your research subquestions you obtained the relevant constructs and all
aspects of each construct including research questions. Then you are able to make an instrument
for gathering the data and you know that the results, the data, will indeed the right data that will
give answers to your research questions. Of course after some analysis of the data.
- Start with the research
- You have already decided where you are going to collect your data, e.g. which group of
persons forms your collection of respondents. You will have to prepare this very well,
you know that this can be done only once (coming back with an 'improved' questionnaire is no option!).
- How to design a questionnaire? An article in english: here
- Do the research
- Use your instruments to gather your data.
- Analyse your data and draw your conclusions
- If you want to perform some serious statistical analysis, which is an option for those who have some knowledge
about statistics or want to gain this knowledge, you can use PSPP, which is an open source alternative for the
well known closed source program SPSS. See: gnu pspp.
You are completely free to use it for your analysis, it will not have any influence on your grade;
the only effect it will have is on your knowledge: it increases.
- Write your final report
- Read the chapters 9 and 10 and use your knowledge about how to write a decent report.
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