RESEARCH DESIGN BASED

ON NATURE OF
INVESTIGATION
PRESENTED BY:
PAWAN R. JADHAO
152020005
M-TECH ( ENV. ENGG.)

OBJECTIVE

1.

Definition

2.

Purpose

3.

Functions

4.

Classifications

5.

Types

6.

References

DEFINITION
A

research design is a plan, structure and strategy of

investigation to obtain answers to research questions
or problems. It includes an outline of what the
investigator will do from writing the hypotheses to
the final analysis of data.
(Kerlinger 1986: 279)

traditional research design is a blueprint or detailed

plan for how a research study is to be completed
(Thyer 1993: 94)

What does it do?

Functions of Research Design

1. The identification and/ or development of procedures
and logistical arrangements required to undertake a study

2. Ensuring that the procedures are adequate in quality to obtain

valid, objective and accurate answers to the research questions.

Classifications of Study Designs

Three types of classifications
on the basis of:

1.

The number of contacts with the study population

2.

The reference period of the study

3.

The nature of the investigation

Classifications of Study Design

Study Design based on the

Nature of the Investigation
Nature

of Investigation :

Whether the independent variable whose effect is to

be investigated on a given phenomenon or situation,
is controlled or manipulated or not

1. Experimental Design
The

researcher introduces the intervention

that is assumed to be cause of change

and waits until it has produced or has been

given sufficient time to produce the change.

The

independent variable can be

observed , introduced, controlled or manipulated
by the researcher.

 An

experimental study can be carried out in either a

controlled or a natural environment.

Study

population in a controlled situation:

such as a room.
Study Population in a natural situation,
population is in its natural environment

2. Non Experimental Design

The researcher starts from

the effect(s) or outcome(s)
and attempts to determine the causation

In this case the independent variable

cannot be observed, introduced, controlled or manipulated
as the assumed cause has already occurred.

Instead the researcher

retrospectively links the cause(s) to outcome(s)

3. Semi-experimental study Design

Quasi-experimental study design
It has the properties of both experimental and nonexperimental studies;
Part of the study may be non-experimental and the other
part experimental

References

http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/7670/9/09_chapter%204.
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http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/4245/05Chap%204_Resea
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