This course is a broad-spectrum, cross-disciplinary and suitable for a wide variety of basic research methodology. Many basic concepts and strategies in research transcend the boundaries of specific academic areas, and such concepts and strategies are at the heart of this course. To some degree, certainly, research methods do vary from one subject area to another: A biologist might gather data by looking through a microscope, a historian by examining written documents from an earlier time period, and a psychologist by administering certain tests or systematically observing people’s behavior. Otherwise, the basic approach to research is the same. Regardless of the discipline, the researcher identifies a question in need of an answer, collects data potentially relevant to the answer, analyzes and interprets the data, and draws conclusions that the data seem to warrant. 
Students in the social sciences, the natural sciences, education, medicine, business administration, landscape architecture, and other academic disciplines may use this course as a guide to the successful completion of their research projects. It guides students from problem selection to completed research report with many concrete examples and practical, how-to suggestions. Students come to understand that research needs planning and design, and they discover how they can effectively and  professionally conduct their own research projects. Essentially, this is a do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself manual. From that standpoint, it can be a guide for students who are left largely to their own resources in carrying out their research projects. This course can guide the student to the completion of a successful research project.

.CONTENTS

Research Methods ( planning research, various methods, analyzing results, giving reports etc) research process including: formulating research questions; sampling ( probability and no probability); measurements ( surveys, scaling, qualitative, unobtrusive); research design ( experimental and quasi-experimental) data analysis; and writing the research paper, the major theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of research including; the idea of validity in research reliability of measures; and ethics

COURSE SCHEDULE

Note: You can reserve one week for sessional or mid term exam, and, if you wish one week for student presentation of the assigned research project

RESEARCH PROJECT/PRACTICAL LABS

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LEARNING OUTCOMES

The students will be able to understand the problems and come with better solutions in the form of designing the research projects.

They will be able to write the dissertation and research articles from their research.