CHAPTER 3 Research design and methodology

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38. CHAPTER 3. Research design and methodology INTRODUCTION. methodology and Research design direct the researcher in planning and implementing the study in a way that is most likely to achieve the intended goal. It is a blueprint for conducting the study (Burns & Grove 1998:745). This CHAPTER describes the Research design and methodology , including sampling and data collection and analysis. DEFINITION OF methodology . Mouton (1996:35) describes methodology as the means or methods of doing something. Polit and Hungler (1999:648) refer to it as the process of following the steps, procedures and strategies for gathering and analysing the data in a Research investigation. These methods describe in detail how the study was conducted. According to Burns and Grove (1998:581), methodology includes the design , setting, sample, methodological limitations and the data-collection and analysis techniques in a study. This is the know-how of the scientific methods and techniques employed to obtain valid knowledge.

38 CHAPTER 3 Research design and methodology 3.1 INTRODUCTION Methodology and research design direct the researcher in planning and implementing the study in a way

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