A research design is best described as a:
A) blueprint for conducting the study.
B) mechanism to guarantee validity of study findings.
C) methodology used only in quantitative studies.
D) model showing two or more concepts and their proposed relationships.

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A research design is a blueprint for conducting a study that maximizes control over factors that could interfere with the validity of the findings.
Validity cannot be guaranteed, but threats to validity must be minimized.
All researchers, whether conducting a qualitative or quantitative-designed study, adopt a particular design for their study.
A model might form the basis of the hypothesis; it is not the research design, which is a blueprint for how the study will be conducted.

A Research Design Is Best Described as A