Briefly Review of Research Design

He also emphasizes that a research design is much more than a work plan. The main purpose of the design is to avoid situation in which the evidence does not address the initial research questions. 

Creswell (2009) also provides a definition of research design as ... plans and procedures for research that span the decisions from broad assumptions to detailed methods of data collection and analysis...  

Creswell (2009) also states that research design involves the intersection of 

Survey research provides a quantitative or numeric description of trends, attimdes, or opinions of a population by studying a sample of that population. It includes cross-sectional and longimdinal studies using questionnaires or strucmred interviews for data collection, with the intent of generalizing from a sample to a population. 

Postpositive Social construction Advocacy/participatory Pragmatic 

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