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I am working on my methodology and it is just not coming together for me. I would love to use a survey to hand out to teachers in the local school system once I get permission. I plan to survey both general and regular education teacher about their attitudes when working students that have been diagnosed with autism. I am not familiar with sampling and have no idea where to start any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Research Design
Research design is defined by an online source as, "overall strategy that you choose to integrate the different components of the study in a coherent and logical way, thereby, ensuring you will effectively address the research problem" (http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?pid=83009&sid=818072).

For this study, a survey of teachers handling children with autism in both the public and private basic education schools (elementary and secondary) in a certain locality (e.g. a city) will be made. Specifically, a descriptive type of research will be utlized because of the intention to describe or characterize the pupils and the teachers handling them. Their profiles will be obtained as they may have a bearing on the research issue which is attitude.
In addition to their profiles, the teachers' attitude toward the students in the classroom ...

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