This document compares and contrasts qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. It notes that qualitative research is best suited for exploring phenomena where the variables are unknown, while quantitative research aims to measure predetermined variables. It also discusses differences in data collection and analysis methods, with qualitative relying on text analysis and themes while quantitative uses instruments to collect numerical data to test hypotheses.
This document compares and contrasts qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. It notes that qualitative research is best suited for exploring phenomena where the variables are unknown, while quantitative research aims to measure predetermined variables. It also discusses differences in data collection and analysis methods, with qualitative relying on text analysis and themes while quantitative uses instruments to collect numerical data to test hypotheses.
This document compares and contrasts qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. It notes that qualitative research is best suited for exploring phenomena where the variables are unknown, while quantitative research aims to measure predetermined variables. It also discusses differences in data collection and analysis methods, with qualitative relying on text analysis and themes while quantitative uses instruments to collect numerical data to test hypotheses.
This document compares and contrasts qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. It notes that qualitative research is best suited for exploring phenomena where the variables are unknown, while quantitative research aims to measure predetermined variables. It also discusses differences in data collection and analysis methods, with qualitative relying on text analysis and themes while quantitative uses instruments to collect numerical data to test hypotheses.
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projected more than anything in suited to address a research problem in history, since it goes back to the which you do not know the variables procedure applied by Galileo in and need to explore. A qualitative studies on gravity. research study is needed to explore this phenomenon from the perspective of This approach is based on the distance education students. In measurement of the phenomena qualitative research, the literature that are studied through review plays a less substantial role at procedures that guarantee the beginning of the study than in precision and thus these are quantitative research. In qualitative characteristics with which the research, although you may review the birth of modern science was literature to justify the need to study the made possible. research problem, the literature does not provide major direction for the research questions. The reason for this is that qualitative research relies more on the views of participants in the study and less on the direction identified in the literature by the researcher In quantitive research, the In qualitative research, the investigator identifies a research purpose statement and the research problem based on trends in the field questions are stated so that you can or on the need to explain why best learn from participants. You something occurs. research a single phenomenon of Some quantitive problems require interest and state this phenomenon in a that you explain how one variable purpose statement. A qualitative study affects another. Normally, it involves that examines the “professionalism” of variables, and this are an attribute teachers and the responses to it will or characteristic that researcher’s yield qualitative data such as quotations study. By explaining a relation, a mog variables, we must be interested in determining whether one or more variables might influence another variable. The methodology of this method In qualitative research, you was conceived for the study of collect data to learn from the various natural phenomena, such as participants in the study and develop astronomy, physics, chemistry, forms, called protocols, for recording biology, neurology, botany, etc. Of data as the study proceeds. These which the human being used to forms pose general questions so that extend the life of human beings and the participants can provide answers to to give a better quality of life to the questions. Often questions on these society. forms will change and emerge during Bearing this in mind, the data collection. Examples of these applications of this method must be forms include an interview protocol, defined depending on the nature of which consists of four or five questions, 3
the phenomenon to be studied. or an observational protocol, in which
the researcher records notes about the behavior of participants. In quantitative research questions, In qualitative research typically you must ask specifically, narrow you gather a text database, so the data questions to obtain measurable data analysis of text consists of dividing it on variables. And the major into groups of sentences, called text statements and questions of segments, and determining the direction in a study are specific meaning of each group of sentences. because you identify only a few Rather than using statistics, you variables to study. From a study of analyze words or pictures to describe these variables, you obtain the central phenomenon under study. measures or assessments on an The result may be a description of instrument or record scores on a individual people or places. In some scale from observations qualitative studies, the entire report is mostly a long description of several individuals. The result may also include themes or broad categories that represent your findings In quantitive data collection, you use In reporting qualitative research, an to measure the variables in the you employ a wide range of formats to study, normally an instrument is a report your studies. Although the overall tool for measuring, observing, or general form follows the standard steps documenting quantitative data. It in the process of research, the contains specific questions and sequence of these “parts” of research response possibilities that you tends to vary from one qualitative report establish or develop in advance of to another. A study may begin with a the study. Examples of this can be long, personal narrative told in story survey questionnaires, standardized form or with a more objective, scientific tests, and checklists. report that resembles quantitative We administer the instruments to research. participants and collect data on the Qualitative reports typically contain form of numbers. The intent of this extensive data collection to convey the process is to apply the results complexity of the phenomenon or (called generalizing the results) from process. The data analysis reflects a small number of people to a large description and themes as well as the number. The larger the number of interrelation of themes. In addition, you individuals studied, the stronger the discuss your role or position in a case for applying the results to research study, called being reflexive. many people This may also involve discussing personal experiences and identifying how you collaborated with participants during phases of the project.