The Selection of a Research Design - SAGE Publications Inc
CHAPTER ONEThe Selection ofa Research DesignResearch designsare plans and the procedures for Research thatspan the decisions from broad assumptions to detailed methodsof data collection and analysis. This plan involves several deci-sions, and they need not be taken in the order in which they make senseto me and the order of their presentation here. The overall decisioninvolves which Design should be used to study a topic. Informing thisdecision should be the worldview assumptions the researcher brings tothe study; procedures of inquiry (called strategies); and specific meth-ods of data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
of looking at research that honors an inductive style, a focus on individual meaning, and the importance of rendering the complexity of a situation (adapted from Creswell, 2007). Quantitative researchis a means for testing objective theories by examining the relationship among variables. These variables, in turn, can
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