By Dr. Subir Kumar Roy Associate Professor,

Transcript:By Dr. Subir Kumar Roy Associate Professor,:
By Dr. Subir Kumar Roy Associate Professor, Department of Law & Registrar (Addl. Charge) Bankura University Research Design “A research design is the arrangement of conditions for collection and analysis of data in a manner that aims to combine relevance to the research purpose with economy in procedure.” (C.R. Kothari, Research Methodology, Methods & Techniques, new age International (P) Limited, Publishers originally quoted from Claire Selltiz and others, Research Methods in Social Sciences, 1962, p. 50. ) Research can also be defined as an arrangement of conditions for collection and analysis of data needed to resolve the research problem and that must address the financial issues i.e. it should be cost effective. Research design can be termed as a conceptual structure within which research is carried on. It is a detailed planning, formulation of a blueprint or an outline consists of hypothesis to collection of data, procedure of collection of data and their analysis, collection of sampling determination of population, sample size, duration of carrying on research, financial liability, techniques of collecting sample and data, and formulation of way for writing the report. So research design broadly deals with the areas as mentioned below: specifications of the information relevant to research problem formulation of statistical and operational methods Determination of strategy to collect data Determination of size of population and sampling unit to collect sample Decision as to duration of the research Determination of financial involvement Strategy to make it cost effective Style of writing report The requirements to formulate a proper Research Design Clear and precise selection of research problem specifications and determination of information relevant to research problem Proper review of Literature Formulation of specific Hypothesis Proper application of mind in selection of data to find out the solution of the problem and to test the hypothesis. To make planning, how to collect such data. Description of method of analysis IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH DESIGN Every research study has its own design in the form of either implicit or explicit. Research design is a comprehensive plan, a detail sketch to draw the whole process of research. Research design is very important for the following reasons: It is a blueprint to answer specific research questions or testing hypothesis. A scientifically formulated research help the researcher to strengthen the validity of their study It deals with the process of data collection It specifies the instrument development process It explicitly describes the