Monday, August 13, 2012

Day 15 – Research Design Continue...


Today is a continuation lecture from the previous lecture, research design. Firstly Mr Eranjan explained why research is so important. Research is so important because it helps researcher to uncover not clear and doubt areas.

After that Mr Eranjan gave a group activity. Group activity was to come up with a research design for an Intelligent Clinic Management System.

Research design for Intelligent Clinic Management System

Objective
To build a clinic management system that would help the clinic improves their efficiency.

Aims
To find a solution to the current system and its faults.

Outcome
Tangible- Document, application, User manual.
Intangible: Reliability, security, efficiency.

Literature review
Go through documents on the current system and data stored in files.

Primary research
Interview the doctors and give questionnaires to customers.

Sampling method
Probabilistic sampling.

Research method
Survey

Research tools
Interviews, questionnaires  

After a time Mr Eranjan checked our answers and he was not satisfied. So to further improve our research design he assigned each group with a type of primary research which could be conducted in APIIT. Our group got the task of observing the library process at APIIT. After that Mr Eranjan concluded the session.

Reflection of today's lecture

Today lecture helped us further to understand about research design. As we learned it in theory last week, we never understood because we didn’t use it practically. But with today’s group work to design research plan for an Intelligent Clinic Management System, I personally cleared many doubts I had. I felt it helped all of us to understand what research design is all about. Overall an effective and fun lecture.   




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