Evaluating a Research Design

Your Name Course and SectionProfessor’s Name January 1, 2025 Evaluating a Research Design Assessing a research design is thus an important factor in any study as it has to fit into the general objectives of the study and more to do proper and credible job. There are certain criteria that are met during the evaluation process where certain aspects will define appropriateness of a design with or within a given research study. Steps for Evaluating a Research Design To begin with, it focuses on the definition of the research objectives. Hence, a design should be chosen depending on the kind of research questions; exploratory, descriptive, or explanatory. For instance, constructing research paradigms such as ethnography or phenomenology is appropriate for assessing views from the participants’ perspective, while numerical paradigms are appropriate for determining the correlation between two or more variables (Tomaszewski et al., 2020). Second, the type of data collection procedures should correspond to the formulated research questions. The design shall identify if interviews, observations, or analysis of documents are to be done. Also, the ...