Designing survey research: recommendation for questionnaire development, calculating sample size and selecting research paradigms
The present study aims to provide a brief guideline to novice researchers that how to develop research questionnaire, research paradigm and theory in a survey based research. Using pragmatic approach, this study has discussed questionnaire development process in detail including questionnaire word...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/2573/1/FH03-FPP-19-28476.pdf http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/2573/ |
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| Institution: | Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | The present study aims to provide a brief guideline to novice researchers that how to develop research questionnaire,
research paradigm and theory in a survey based research. Using pragmatic approach, this study has discussed
questionnaire development process in detail including questionnaire wording and formatting. Extending to this
research paradigms and theory levels have been discussed. This study goes a step further and described sampling
issues such as selecting appropriate sample size. Moreover, research methods for instance quantitative and
qualitative research methods have been discussed. The main contribution of this study was to examine the sampling
size issue. A meticulous review has bared the exact sample size that is supported by different researchers. Banking
sector has been used for the development of questionnaire and sample size selection. Overall this article is designed
to give beginner researchers advice and support to help them to design good questionnaires, to maximize their
response rate, and to undertake appropriate data analysis. |
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