This document defines experimental research design and discusses its purpose and function. An experimental research design is a blueprint that allows researchers to test hypotheses about relationships between independent and dependent variables. The main purposes of research design are to provide maximum relevant information to the problem being studied, maximize experimental variance while controlling extraneous variance and minimizing error variance to produce unambiguous results. A good research design answers research questions as objectively, validly and accurately as possible by suggesting how to collect data, control variables, manipulate variables and analyze results statistically.