Course Description & Objectives:
- Research and the state of knowledge; purpose of research; principles of research and problems in starting research.
- Feasibility and ethical issues in research.
- The research process; the research problem, formulating objectives, questions, hypotheses, etc. Conceptualization of the problem and the need for a conceptual framework, conceptual proposal and research proposal.
- Principles of literature review.
- Research types and research designs (descriptive studies, analytical stuidies, experimental research, forecasting studies, etc).
- Sampling and sample designing.
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