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In the universities, students and researchers who engage in research writing have continued to find it difficult to understand the concept of research design, its importance and how to apply it in their project works at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This may not be unconnected to the reasons most of them outsource the process of writing research projects to third parties with attendant consequences on the quality, validity and credibility of their research output. Research in Adult Education is aimed at proffering solutions to educational problems and creating new ideas in the field of education. This paper explored the concepts of research design and its significance in adult education research. The paper used documentary approach in qualitative research methodology to obtain secondary data from scholarly publications to examine the different approaches in design research and highlight the critical issues that students and researchers should acquaint themselves with in their pursuit to produce quality research projects.

Keywords

Research Design, Quantitative Design; Qualitative Design; Mixed-Methods Design; Adult Education

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