Open AccessChallenges Faced by Novice Research Students at Undergraduate Level: A Qualitative Study at Institute of Education and Research
Author(s) -
Sabiha Zafar,
Muhammad Kamran,
Hassan Raza,
Afshan Mehtab
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
review of applied management and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2708-3640
pISSN - 2708-2024
DOI - 10.47067/ramss.v4i2.142
Subject(s) - nonprobability sampling , sample (material) , qualitative research , medical education , qualitative property , mathematics education , psychology , research design , sampling (signal processing) , research data , data collection , sociology , computer science , medicine , library science , social science , population , chemistry , demography , subject (documents) , filter (signal processing) , chromatography , machine learning , computer vision
This study was conducted to investigate the problems faced by Novice researchers at Institute of Education and Research, Punjab University Lahore. The study was Qualitative by nature. Seven B.Ed. Hons students were selected through purposive sampling as sample. For this purpose in-depth interview was used as instrument to collect data from the sample. Researcher herself conducted the interviews from Novice researchers. Data was collected, organized and analysed. Themes were generated from the data. Major findings of research were that novice researcher are lacking in expertise, confidence in conducting research, problems finding relevant literature and sample, analysing data and reporting properly.