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7 days National Level Research Methodology Workshop in Collaboration with University of Mumbai and St. Xavier’s (Autonomous) College (Wednesday, 24th May to Wednesday, 31st May 2023)

The IQAC and Research Cell of Nirmala Memorial Foundation College in collaboration with University of Mumbai and St. Xavier’s (Autonomus) College organised a 7 days National Level Research Methodology Workshop. Altogether 113 participants registered for the workshop. The participants are from different universities whereas, some of them are from Goa and Madhya Pradesh too. The objective of the research Methodology workshop is :

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	<li style="text-align: justify;">To understand the basic concepts of research and its methodologies</li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;">To give exposure to Research scholars on various aspects of Research. </li>
	<li style="text-align: justify;">To provide a comprehensive overview of qualitative and quantitative research framework.</li>
</ul>

Inaugural Function:  
Dr. Rajendra Shinde, Principal of St. Xavier’s (Autonomous) College gave opening remarks for the workshop whereas, Dr. Poonam Kakkad, IQAC Co-ordinator from NMFC welcomed the guests and participants. Dr. Sis Candy, the Chief Guest for the workshop gave best wishes and addressed the audience. She highlighted the relevance of Research in academics.  
Day 1:  
Prof. Madhu Arora was the first Resource Person of the workshop. However, knowing the crowd she started with basic steps and types in research. Resource Person emphasized on identifying the dependent and independent variables and also how to identify the variables. Participants were actively involved in discussion with the Resource Person.  
Day 2:  
Dr. Anuradha J. Bakshi shared her expertise in the field of Review of Literature. She shared the examples from different journals and online research papers. Also, she highlighted the references at the end of the research. Participants highly appreciated the session.  
Day 3:    
Dr. Yagnesh Dalvadi, was invited to guide participants about framing hypotheses based on their research topic. He also pondered upon the framing of questionnaires for collection of primary data. He mentioned a few websites wherein, the link of the questionnaire can be shared and allow respondents to fill up the same.  
Day 4: 
Dr. Sujata Rajpurkar, Librarian was invited to speak on “Academic honesty in Research”. She explained the ethics in research and how to avoid the faulty practices while conducting research. The concept of Plagiarism was explained in detail and different software available was also introduced to the participants.  
Day 5:  
Dr. Manojkumar was invited to talk on the topic “Parametric Test”. He gave the gist of all the parametric tests used in research. Also, the outcome and introduction of data was discussed in brief. Sir, gave some case studies to understand the concepts clearly. At the end, the doubts of participants were clarified by the resource person.  
Day 6:  
Dr. Seema Malik was invited to talk on the topic “ Non Parametric Test”. She used “Megastats” , the add-on feature of excel, to explain various techniques for Non Parametric Test. Since participants were told prior to download the software, they were able to do it simultaneously along with the resource person.  
Day 7 :

Dr. Dr. Anindita Chatterjee Rao, was invited to deliver a talk on the topic “Tools and Techniques for Research”. She introduced different statistical techniques that can be used depending on the data. Also, briefly she showed the usage of SPSS for analysing the data. Participants appreciated her session.

After completion of the Research Workshop an objective oriented test was conducted to know the learnings of participants. The grades were given to the participants based on their scores in the test.

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