Concept of Scientific Enquiry - Formulation of Research Problem Hypothesis Building Characteristic and Testing, Review of Literature, Research Design-Exploratory, Descriptive and Experimental research Design. Qualitative Research Design. Data Collection -Sources, Constructing a questionnaire. The Interview, Observation and Survey. Sampling Decisions, Probability and Sampling.
Parametric and Nonparametric test, level of Significance, using software for analysis Grouping and displaying data to convey meaning: Tables and Graphs, measures of Central tendency and dispersion in frequency distributions, Probability distributions, and Testing hypotheses
One sample test and two sample tests, chi-square and analysis of variance, Simple regression and correlation, Non-Parametric methods - the sign test for paired data, the rank sums test. The mann-whittney U test, the one sample Runs test, rank correlation.
Attitude Measurement- Motivational Research, Focus Group; Scaling Techniques- Socio Metric and Rating Scale, Scalograms, Internal Consistency Scales. Report Writing Organization Presentation, Bibliography and References.