State the situations where hypothesis testing is inevitable in a project work

1. Project work:

Project work is a student-centred pedagogy in which students learn subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem.

(i) It would help some extent to bridge the gap between the theory learned in the classroom and application.

(ii) Project work is a complete assignment. It contains the levels of planning, execution, analysis and reporting the work done.

2. Intangible benefits of a project work:

(i) Development of the capacity to identify and correctly specify statistical problem,

(ii) Ability to interpret results,

(iii) Development of report writing skill,

(iv) Aware of the assumptions and the steps to validate them.

3. Six stages of a project work:

(i) The first and foremost stages of any project work is identifying the topic of the project work.

(ii) The second stage of project work is clearly stating the objectives/ formulating hypotheses.

(iii) The third stage of project work is project work planning, involves selecting the most appropriate methods.

(iv) The fourth stage of project work is data collection and data file preparation.

(v) The fifth stage of project work is statistical data analysis.

(vi) The last stage of project work is report writing.

4. Outline of a project work plan:

(i) It allows to outline the requirements of a project.

(ii) Project planning steps.

(iii) Goals and team members involved in the project.

5. Questionnaire design:

It is the process of designing the format and questions in the survey instrument that will be used to collect data.

(i) Major goal of questionnaire design process is to reduce the total amount of measurement error in a questionnaire.

6. Characteristics of questionnaire:

(i) Wording must be clear.

(ii) Selecting words to avoid biasing the respondent.

(iii) Creating the willingness of the respondent to answer the questions.

(iv) Considering the ability of the respondent to answer the question.

7. Pre-test:

The process of collecting information from the related respondent in small number with the framed questionnaire is called pre-test.

(i) Once a rough draft of the Questionnaire has been designed, the researcher is obligated to take a step back and critically evaluate it.

(ii) Pre-test is to be done, after the questionnaire is prepared.

8. The general structure of a project report:

(i) Preliminary section:

The preliminary section includes the title page, the preface, the acknowledgement, the table of contents and the list of tables and figures.

(ii) Main body:

The main body contains the introduction to the problem, the review of previous research in a similar field, the details of the procedure.

(iii) Reference section:

The reference section includes footnotes, Bibliography Appendix, Index, etc.