Trend Analysis Descriptive Design
Synopsis
A descriptive research method is used for a variety of reasons. Even after outlining survey goals, survey designs as well as collecting data. This design can use a wide variety of research methods to investigate one or more variables. In this topic about “Descriptive design (trend analysis)”, you will encounter first the definition of descriptive research and trend analysis that is briefly discuss and explain. The second part is the characteristics of descriptive research that being discussed like analyzing data, uncontrolled variables and directs future research. This shows how important it is to use descriptive research as a tool in writing or conducting research. The third part is the descriptive research that has a distinct method that being describe briefly in this topic such as Survey Research, Observational method, Content analysis and Case study method. This method in descriptive research helps us in deriving patterns, traits, and the behaviors of respondents. It also aims to understand the attitudes and opinions that respondents hold about certain phenomena. Lastly, I prepare a sample of descriptive research that I hope, would help those who chooses this tool for their study. It is very useful when conducting research whose aim is to identify characteristics, frequencies, trends, correlations, and categories.
