Since I have no evidence so far proves that AR can foster creativity among students, would you suggest me to stop examining the effect of AR or keep it up? and if not so how can I justify that in my research?

If you'd performed rigorous literature review & find no precedent that AR is positively influencing creative thinking skills. Then you might consider either of these 3 approaches:

Thanks, Dr. for your informative response. I forgot to mention that this question is related to my PhD research. And what I understood from your valuable suggestions that one of these 3 steps should be conducted as a separate study in order to justify my original research. Am I right Dr?

Thanks in advance...

Hi Jaber,

It depends on your PhD research objective, your research methodology skillset & preference. For your above research topic, some researchers just opt for 1 or 2 or 3. Some researchers might started off with Option 3 (Qualitative Interview Study) so that the end outcome consists of some propositions or hypothetical statements / hypotheses that drive the researcher further to conduct a quantitative research either Option 1 or 2. This approach is called Exploratory Sequential Mixed Method Research i.e. Qualitative first then follow by a Quantitative Research. Wishing you all the best.

Dr Han Ping Fung, I must admit I am speechless. I really cannot thank you enough for all that you have done for me today.

I got it Dr. :)

please check the literature rigorously particularly scopus data base with appropriate keywords. sometime missing keyword may not yield better results. all the best

thank sir for your valuable advice

yes i will

my best regard