research methodology course

1. INDIAN ACADEMIC
RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATION
Sponsored
ONE WEEK WORKSHOP ON
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND SPSS
Date: 15th
– 21st
March 2017
PROGRAMME REPORT
In association with
PUBLICATION DIVISION
BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERISTY
TIRUCHIRAPPALLI - 620023
TAMIL NADU

6. ONE WEEK WORKSHOP ON
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND SPSS
organized by
PUBLICATION DIVISION
BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI
in association with
INDIAN ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATION, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI
DETAILED PROGRAMME REPORT
Publication Division, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli and
Indian Academic Researchers Association, Tiruchirappalli has jointly
organized a One week workshop on Research Methodology and SPSS held
during 15th March 2017 to 21st March 2017 at Department of Women’s
Studies, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli.
Dr.N.Murugeswari, Ph.D. Workshop Director, Professor of Women’s
Studies, Director (i/c), Publication Division, Bharathidasan University,
Tiruchirappalli had welcomes the chief guest, resource persons, organizing
members and participants of the workshop. She noticed that, the resource
persons for the technical sessions were invited from various disciplines and
universities. She summarized the process and difficulty in the selection of
fifty participants from all over the country out of more than hundred
applications received. More than 50 participants from various universities,
colleges, departments were participated in the inaugural session.
Dr.S.Iyyampillai, Professor of Economics & Principal (i/c), BDU -
Constituent Arts & Science College, Navalurkuttapattu, Tiruchirappalli
presided over the presidential address in the inaugural session of the one

7. week workshop on Research Methodology and SPSS. He advised the
participants to utilize this workshop which will helpful to gain more
knowledge on research methodology and the statistical software SPSS. He
also quoted the various research activities and projects done by Indian
Academic Researchers Association, the sponsor of the one week workshop.
Dr.C.Paramasivan, Workshop Organizing Secretary, Assistant
Professor of Commerce, Periyar E.V.R. College, Tiruchirappalli has adorned
the dais by his presentation. He informed the participants that such
workshops are apart from the usual classes on research methodology. He
highlights the importance of the workshop, present situation in research
methodology, need of statistical tool packages in the field of science and
social science. He underlines that IARA promotes interdisciplinary
workshops and conferences that makes a comfort in research activities.
Dr.R.Mangaleswaran, Member-Syndicate, Associate Professor of Social
Work, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli in his inaugural address,
he highlighted that there is an increasing demand and significance of such
workshops on research methodology as evident from the tremendous
responses from researchers of various institutions. He cautioned the
participants, most of them are in the initial stage of their Ph.D research that
there should not be an over emphasis on quantitative methods. He express
the significance of the identification of problem in any research work will
reflect the overall quality of research work to be carried out.
In the first technical session of the workshop, Dr.S.Iyyampillai spoke
on ‘Research Methodology - A New Approach’. In his presentation he

8. highlighted the implication of knowledge that should be harnessed for the
betterment of society and universities are the pivotal spaces for creation and
diffusion of research knowledge. He proposed to establish and strengthen
the Research Eco System as a tool to facilitate the interaction between
various stakeholders of research methodology in social science. He raised
concerns regarding the challenges faced by researchers in India that include
lack of comprehensive research policies, inadequate funding, shortage of
quality faculty, inadequate training, over burden faculties etc., He concluded
that universities should not support any production process, but accelerate
knowledge. So there is a need to evolve a flexible, reachable and effective
system.
In the second technical session on Identification of Research Problem
and Literature Survey Dr.D.Kumar, Associate Professor of Economics, Jamal
Mohamed College, Tiruchirappalli has mesmerised the participants with an
academically charged and thought provoking lecture. Keeping in mind that
majority of the participants are still formulating their research topics, he
shared his own experience of writing a thesis. Literature review is one of the
prominent sources of formulation of research question. He said three
principles are essential for quality literature survey: principle of economy of
time, principle of economy of words, principle of economy of references.
On the second day of the workshop started with the insightful lecture
by Dr.S.Senthilnathan, Associate Professor of Educational Technology,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli. For him the key for a quality
work is ‘join writing to research’ which means that the researcher should

9. not treat writing as a mopping up activity. It is a general tendency to focus
on reading than writing in the process of carrying out of research. He said
that scholars generally struggle with the issue of topic for the research. To
grapple with this problem, he suggested the participants to always make a
reading list of salient work in the broad area of their interest.
Prof.M.Balasubramanian, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Periyar
E.V.R. College, Tiruchirappalli has enlightened the participants with the
role, usage and functionalities of the various statistical tools in research. He
discussed the types of data and scale measurement. Keeping in mind that
most of the participants are afresh to research methodology procedures, he
familiarized the participants with the various software that are often used in
research work like excel, SPSS, SAS etc. At the end he indicates the
importance of accurate measurement as the most fundamental aspect of
any research.
The training session was conducted by Dr.R.Balasubramani, Assistant
Professor of LIS, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli on ‘Publishing
Ethics and Plagiarism’. In this he demonstrated that how the citation
databases are working includes web of science, scopus, google scholar,
science direct etc., and explains how to avoid and get overcome the
plagiarism. In the next session, Dr.M.Surulinathi, spoke about the ‘Open
Source Educational Resources and Google Technology’ and he lecture about
various resources like researchgate, academia, linkedin, google scholar,
mendeley, researcherid etc., used for research purposes. Followed by
Dr.B.Jeyapragash, University Librarian, Bharathidasan University who

10. discussed about ‘Reference Management System’ and explained the different
avenues available to researchers today and how technology will change the
vision for future studies. Technology penetration has unleashed different
dimensions for researchers and while developing the research concept, the
researcher and supervisor should think beyond the current scenario.
Prof. Moges Tadesse Bedane, Dean of ICDS, Ambo University, Ethiopia
was delivered a very informative lecture on the topic ‘Sampling and its
Techniques’. According to him proper sampling size is essential for the
quality of research. Both probability and non-probability sampling methods
should be employed meticulously and cautiously. Any error may occur in
the process of sampling may affect the results and conclusions severely. At
the last he discussed about the sample size of research work and how to
calculate it.
The fourth day of the workshop was devoted to the parametric
analysis through SPSS in social sciences keeping in mind that many
participants are opting for parametric analysis in their research work. So
the session was started with the discussion on ‘Parametric Analysis’ by
Dr.T.Tirupathi, Assistant Professor & Head of Commerce, Government Arts
College, Salem. He discussed various kinds of scales that are used in social
sciences for measuring subjective variables. He carried out practical work
with participants using SPSS. He argued the validity of questionnaire in
SPSS and other criteria for testing the reliability and validity also.
The final four sessions were started with the lecture of
Mr.MM.Shankar, Programme Mentor, Centre for Applied Research and

11. Educational Services, Bangalore has discussed ‘Multi variant Analysis and
SEM using SPSS’ through the practical exercises of SPSS. He told the
various statistical analysis like frequency tabulation of data, cleaning of
data, cross tabulation for two or more variable, chi square test for the
nominal and ordinal data, finding the descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA,
non-parametric methods, correlation and regression. He discussed how to
relate the hypothesis and objective of research and how to do the statistical
analysis. Hands on training were carried out for each method by the
participants. He elaborates deeply in framing of hypothesis and how to
perform an analysis for it and as well as the interpretation of the output.

12. Welcome Address by Dr.N.Murugeswari
Honouring the Guest

13. Presidential Address by Dr.C.Paramasivan
Inaugural Address by Dr.R.Mangaleswaran

14. Technical Session I by Dr.S.Iyyampillai
Technical Session II by Dr.D.Kumar

15. Technical Session III by Dr.S.Senthilnathan
Technical Session IV by Prof.M.Balasubramanian

16. Technical Session VI by Dr.R.Balasubramani
Technical Session VII by Dr.M.Surulinathi

17. Technical Session VIII by Dr.B.Jeyapragash
Technical Session IX by Prof. Moges Tadesse Bedane

18. Technical Session X by Dr.T.Tirupathi
Technical Session XI & XII by Mr.MM.Shankar

19. Technical Session XIII & XIV by Mr.MM.Shankar
Feedback by Participants

20. Honouring the Guest
Valedictory Address by Prof. Kamala Sanakran

21. Certificate Distribution
Participants Group Photo

22. ONE WEEK WORKSHOP ON
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND SPSS
organized by
PUBLICATION DIVISION
BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI
in association with
INDIAN ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS ASSOCIATION, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI
List of Participants
S.No Participant Photo Name and Affiliation Contact Details
1
P.Akhila,
Research Scholar,
Department of Geology,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
9626082284
pakhila1990@gmail.com
2
Amith M S,
Udayasadanam
Keerikkad PO
Alappuzha 690508
9895934363
amithmcj@gmail.com
3
A.Anand,
Assistant Professor,
CSI College of Education,
Ramanathapuram
9442321612
tomanand.cool@gmail.com
4
K.Arivalagan,
Research Scholar,
Department of Commerce,
Periyar EVR College,
Tiruchirappalli
9962852023
arivalagan138@gmail.com
5
S.Arockiyasamy,
Research Scholar,
Department of Educational Psychology,
TamilNadu Teachers Education
University,Chennai
9942815415
arockiya2015@gmail.com
6
C.Ashok Kumar,
Assistant Professor,
Oxford College of Education,
Tiruchirappalli
9715629267
asoka7gi@gmail.com

23. 7
Bonita Lynette Cooper,
Research Scholar,
Department of Women’s Studies,
Bharathidasan University,
Tiruchirappalli
9751023596
bonita.cooper953@gmail.com
8
M.Deivanai,
Research Scholar in Management,
Department of Commerce & Financial
Studies,
Bharathidasan University,
Tiruchirappalli
8870692602
deivanai_789@yahoo.co.in
9
Dr. S.Savarimuthu,
Principal,
New Ideal College of Education,
Tiruchirappalli
9965809004
savarimuthu2008@gmail.com
10
Dr.A. Charmila, MD., DGO., DFP.,
FICOG.,
Aditi Hospital,
5, Usman Ali Street, TVS Tollgate,
Tiruchirappalli
9843177299
dr.charmila@gmail.com
11
Dr. V.Selvi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
Mother Teresa Women’s University,
Kodaikanal
selvigiri.s@gmail.com
12
Dr. V. P. Thirulogasundaram,
Professor & Head,
Management Studies,
AIMS&R, Bangalore
9842059419
vpthirulogu@gmail.com
13
M.Elango,
Research Scholar,
Department of Education,
Central University of TamilNadu,
Thiruvarur
9442919861
elangosumat@gmail.com
14
M.Ezhilarasi,
Research Scholar,
Department of Future Studies,
Madurai Kamaraj University,
Madurai
9443179887
ezhil.devan@gmail.com

24. 15
Jasim H R
Research Scholar,
Department of Geography,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
9656021476
jasimhr2013@gmail.com
jasimhr@yahoo.com
16
G.JayaSheela,
Assistant Professor,
Saveetha School of Law,
Saveetha University,
Chennai
9750888442
jaysheelaw@gmail.com
17
John Lama,
Research Scholar,
Department of Physical Education and
Sports,
Pondicherry University,
Puducherry
9488358472
johndgreatlama@gmail.com
18
M.Kalaiarasi,
Guest Lecturer,
Government Law College,
Tiruchirappalli
9003625661
kalai.malaichamy@gmail.co
m
19
R.Kalaiarasi,
Research Scholar,
Department of Education,
Tamil University, Thanjavur
9942722243
kalaiarasiramadass@gmail.co
m
20
S.Kalugasalamurthy,
Research Scholar,
Faculty of Management Studies,
Dr. MGR Educational & Research
University, Chennai
9940658513
sornamkmurthy@gmail.com
21
R.Kandavel,
Research Scholar,
Department of Business Administration,
Annamalai University,
Chidambaram
9698965123
krkandavel@gmail.com
22
K.Karpagam,
Research Scholar,
Department of Women’s Studies,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
8344517655
rathikarpagam@gmail.com

25. 23
R.Karthikayani,
Research Scholar,
Department of Economics,
Rajah SerfojiGovernment College,
Thanjavur
9843733366
karthikayaniravindran@gmail
.com
24
P.KasthuriThilagam,
Research Scholar,
Department of Physical Education and
Sports,
Pondicherry University,
Puducherry
9787790107
kasthuri.chem@gmail.com
25
P.Kumar,
Research Scholar,
Department of Physical Education and
Sports,
Pondicherry University,
Puducherry
9952013045
kumar09061987@gmail.com
26
K.Kumaresan,
Research Scholar,
Department of Commerce,
Periyar EVR College,
Tiruchirappalli
9942951207
1991kkumaresan@gmail.com
27
Laisamma A M,
Research Scholar,
Department of Social Work,
Bishop Heber College,
Tiruchirappalli
9487804813
laisamanisjc@gmail.com
28
M.Mahalakshmi,
Research Scholar,
Department of Social Work,
Alagappa University,
Karaikudi
9943943479
mahamsw.lakshmi@gmail.co
m
29
G.Manikandan,
Self Research Scholar,
Department of Archaeology,
Deccan College &RGRI
Pune, Maharashtra
07339692356
manikandangtuti@gmail.com
30
M.Maria Clement Felix,
Research Scholar,
Department of Education,
Periyar University, Salem
9943782382
mmcfelix@gmail.com

26. 31
Mohamed Yasir Arafath,
Research Scholar,
Department of Social Work,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
7845435960
araft7145@gmail.com
32
P.Muthamizh Thilagam,
Guest Faculty,
Government Law College,
Tiruchirappalli
8940523074
muthamizhthilagam@gmail.c
om
33
P.Nandhini,
Research Scholar,
Department of Women’s Studies,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
9655160839
pnandhi@gmail.com
34
M.Nirmala,
Assistant Professor,
Government Law College,
Tiruchirappalli
9944687780
deepakkumarsuresh@gmail.c
om
35
S.Parameswari,
Research Scholar,
Department of Social Work,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
9677862176
parameswarisundaram25@gm
ail.com
36
P.Parasakthi,
M.Ed Scholar,
Bon Secours College of Education,
Thanjavur
9677285558
sakthiparisithu@gmail.com
37
C.Parvathi,
Research Scholar,
Department of Women’s Studies,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
8508532691
parvathifamily@gmail.com
38
A.Pushparaj,
Research Scholar,
Department of Botany,
Periyar EVR College,
Tiruchirappalli
9952414490
pushpasaya10@gmail.com

27. 39
R.Pushpavalli,
Guest Lecturer,
Government Law College,
Tiruchirappalli
9994328445
pushpahirishi@gmail.com
40
RA Vijippriya
Assistant Professor,
Government Law College,
Tiruchirappalli
9789398849
9790850957
ramlalivp@gmail.com
41
S.Rajashri,
Research Scholar,
Department of Extension Education,
Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed
University),
Dindigul
9442058892
rajathalapathishri@gmail.com
42
A.Ramija Bee,
Research Scholar,
Department of Women’s Studies,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
7373790678
ramijabee@gmail.com
43
S.Renuka,
Guest Lecturer,
Government Law College,
Tiruchirappalli
9578250519
renuka.adv@gmail.com
44
P.Sachidhanandham,
Research Scholar,
Department of Education,
Tamil University, Thanjavur
9655522245
soolaisachu11@gmail.com
45
G.SanthaSheela,
Guest Lecturer,
Government Law College,
Tiruchirappalli
9677550099
santha.law@gmail.com
46
P.Saravanan,
Research Scholar,
Department of Education,
Alagappa University,Karaikudi
9843614923
pas.saravanan@gmail.com

28. 47
V.Sathyalakshmi,
Research Scholar,
PG & Research Department of Commerce,
AyyaNadarJanakiAmmal
College, Sivakasi
8098599158
vsathyalakshmi1092@gmail.c
om
48
S.Senthilkumar,
Research Scholar,
Department of Commerce,
Jamal Mohamed College,
Tiruchirappalli
9488956002
senthilkumar.1207@gmail.co
m
49
S.Shangamithirai,
Guest Lecturer,
Government Law College,
Tiruchirappalli
8903783185
chinmithra@gmail.com
50
SreePrapanch C,
Research Scholar,
Department of Visual Communication,
Holy Cross College, Tiruchirappalli
9791408802
sreeprapanchc@gmail.com
51
A.Sudha,
Guest Lecturer,
Government Law College,
Tiruchirappalli
9894715303
sudhalaw28@gmail.com
52
M.Udayachandran,
Research Scholar,
Department of Physical Education and
Sports,
Pondicherry University,
Puducherry
9445155429
udayabarbosa@gmail.com
53
U.Vaidyanatha,
Research Scholar,
University College of Physical Education,
Bangalore University,
Bangalore
09538830401
vaidya.bub@gmail.com
54
S.Vijayalakshmi,
UGC - SRF Scholar,
Department of Social Work,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
8825397771
viji_18sep@yahoo.com
55
Xavier Vinayaraj N V,
Research Scholar,
Department of Social Work,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
8281241870
vinayarajnv@gmail.com

29. 56
K.Yoganathan,
Research Scholar,
Department of Geology,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli
9865045003
yogakvl@gmail.com