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Long question
1. What is deductive approach? Why deductive approach is known as theory testing approach?
How is it different from/than inductive approach? Explain it in detail.
2. What is inductive approach? Why inductive approach is known as theory building
approach? How is it different from deductive approach?
3. Define Research design. What are the different components of research design? What are
the features of exploratory research design? How is it different from the descriptive
research design? What are the common errors in research design?
4. What are the features of case study research design? How it is different from the
experimental research design and correlational research design? What are the strengths and
weaknesses of case study research design
5. What are the features of exploratory research design? How is it different from the
experimental research design? Why is it difficult to conduct research under cohort research
design? What are the common errors in research design?
6. What are the features of experimental research design? How is it different from the survey
research design?
7. What are the features of descriptive research design? How it is different from the
exploratory research design?
8. What is the case study research? What are the features of case study research design?
Describe the strength and weakness of a case study research design?
9. Distinguish the following concept as used in research
 Academic proposal and funded proposal
 Pure research and action research
 Quantitative research and qualitative research
 Action research and basic research
 Sampling error and non-sampling error
 Fundamental and academic research proposal
 Deductive approach and inductive approaches to research
 Applied/action research and pure research

 Traditional literature review and meta-analysis
 Positivism and interpretivism
 Parametric and non-parametric data