IIIResearch Design and Methodology
A well-conceived design is no guarantee of the validity of research findings. Elegant designs nicely tailored to research problems can still result in wrong or distorted conclusions. Nevertheless, the chances of arriving at accurate and valid conclusions are better with sound designs than with unsound ones.
Kerlinger, 1986, p. 341
The research design and methods used to test the hypotheses in this study are elaborated in this seven-section chapter. Included in Target Population and Survey Procedure are the research domain, target population, and survey procedure issues. The next section, Construction of the Instrument and Measures, includes the development of the research instrument and the operational definitions ...
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