ABSTRACT
The research design, as mentioned in chapter 1, is the overall plan for carrying out a research study. This design is like the blueprint for building a house. Its purpose is to guide researchers in constructing the strongest and most effi cient structure to provide the most useful data to answer the research question(s). Just like a poorly designed blueprint, which results in a house full of problems and possible structural collapse, a poorly designed research study produces results containing many fl aws, and consequently, has little practical use.
