The Department of Management & Commerce, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru Campus, organized a one-week FDP on “Step by Step Guide to Research for Beginners” from January 7-13, 2021. The resource person was Dr. D. N. Sansanwal, Retired Head and Dean, Faculty of Education, Devi Ahilya University, Indore. This FDP covered extensively the topics such as:
- Research: Definition, Characteristics, Types and Steps.
- Variables: Types and Sources, Writing of Title & Objective
- Hypothesis: Definition, Basis, Types, Forms, Wording, and Testing
- One-Tailed Test and Two-Tailed Test, and Type I Error and Type II Error
- Sampling: Concept of Universe, Population, Sample, & Frame
- Non-Probability Sampling Techniques and Probability Sampling Techniques, Sampling Error, & determining Sample size
- Tools / Instruments: Characteristics, Difference between Measurement and Assessment, Types of Tool, Procedure of development and standardization
- Methods of Reliability and Validity, and Norms
- Experimental Research: Principle, Types of Experimental Design, Methods of Controlling intervening variables
