research design
Investigation planning framework
Research design is the overall plan or framework for conducting a study—the strategy that shapes how data will be collected, measured, and analyzed.
It encompasses choices about methodology, sampling, variables, and controls.
A strong research design ensures that findings can actually answer the research question: The research design called for a randomized controlled trial with a three-year follow-up period.
- literature reviewAnalysis of prior scholarship
- triangulationLocation via three points
- dependent variableOutcome being measured
- operationalizationDefining concepts as measurable
- control groupUntreated subjects for comparison
blinding · epistemology · reliability · clinical trials · pilot study · randomization · double blind · ontology · cross-sectional · survey · hypothesis testing · psychological experiments · reproducibility · ethical considerations · informed consent · peer review · methodology · validity
- researchstudy, archive, peer review, investigating, citation
- research methodsexperiment, hypothesis, deduction, experiments, induction
- Education Researchlearning theory, assessment methods, teaching methods, pedagogy, control groups
- fieldworkfieldwork, field work, field journal, field guide, field study
- statisticsmean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation
- Thesesdissertation, doctoral thesis, honors thesis, master's thesis, masters thesis
research designguesswork
Conclusions drawn without proof
pseudoscience · superstition · gut feeling · conjecture · wishful thinking
design, research, designer, designing, designed, researcher, designs, redesign, researched