Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
Ervin Ramos
DLSU-D
Tons of
paper
work!!!
What do you usually associate with
research? (Connotations)
Experiments?
What is research? (Denotation)
Action
Basic
Applied
TYPES OF RESEARCH (Sevilla, Ochave,
Punsalan, Regala, & Uriarte, 1992)
This refers to
research done by
discovering or
identifying and
solving a problem
in the immediate
ACTION RESEARCH
local setting
without the
intention of
generalizing its
results.
Two Approaches to Research
Quantitative
Qualitative
Quantitative
Emphasizes numbers,
measurements,
control, and
experimentation
Goal: statistically or
numerically describe,
analyze, show
relationships
(correlations) or
establish causality
Do you agree?
Do you agree?
Qualitative
Emphasizes natural
settings, observations,
verbal narratives, and
interpretations
Some Goals:
Develop understanding
Describe multiple realities
Capture naturally
occurring behavior
Qualitative vis-à-vis Quantitative
Sample Size?
Box A Box B
●
Small Large
●
Nonrepresentative Representative
●
Purposeful Random Selection
Control Groups
Stratified
Qualitative Quantitative
Qualitative vis-à-vis Quantitative
Methods?
Box A Box B
●
Experiments Observation
●
Quasi-experiments Open-ended
●
Surveys interviewing
●
Structured Interviews Review of documents
●
Structured Observations and artifacts
Quantitative
Qualitative
Which Approach is Best?
One is categorically not better than the other.
Descriptive - WHat is