Sunday, November 15, 2009

Does one always need to have an independent and dependent variable in qualitative research?

It's possible.What does your book say?

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Help me with my research topic. i need both quantitative and qualitative topics.?

please give me some suggestions of topic for both quantitative and qualitative research. help me please. tq

Help me with my research topic. i need both quantitative and qualitative topics.?
Qualitative research involves analysis of data such as words (e.g., from interviews), pictures (e.g., video), or objects (e.g., an artifact), while quantitative research involves analysis of numerical data.





Qualitative research - recent (or within the 20th century) history/politics --%26gt; through oral interviews, etc., social history, human behavior





Quantitative research - surveys, market research








Questions to ask:


Research with Subjects (Quantitative)


1. What do I know about a problem that will allow me to formulate and test a hypothesis?


2. What concepts can I use to test this hypothesis?


3. How can I operationally define these concepts?


4. What scientific theory can explain the data?


5. How can I interpret the results and report them in the language of my colleagues?





Research with Informants (Qualitative)


1. What do my informants know about their culture that I can discover?


2. What concepts do my informants use to classify their experiences?


3. How do my informants define these concepts?


4. What folk theory do my informants use to explain their experience?


5. How can I translate the cultural knowledge of my informants into a cultural description my colleagues will understand?





More info on qualitative research: http://www.wilderdom.com/OEcourses/PROFL...


More info on quantitative research: http://www.wilderdom.com/OEcourses/PROFL...


Anyone know the advantages and disadvantages to qualitative research in counselling?

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Is a testable hypothesis quantitative or qualitative research?

It is quantitative with regards to how the hypothesis is evaluated but you can evaluate qualitative questions, say like voter preference, color of peas, or quantitative questions like median or mean of height of a population.

Is a testable hypothesis quantitative or qualitative research?
both


What is Negative Case Analysis in Qualitative Research?

Deviant case analysis is a process for refining an analysis until it can explain or account for a majority of cases.





Analysis of deviant cases may revise, broaden and confirm the patterns emerging from data analysis.

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What are the pros and cons of qualitative research?

- takes a long time which means cant get many


- cant be generalised


- not very reliable as if interview or wateva was carried out again wouldnt get the same answers





+ get more detail


+ adds validity


+ may get information that you did not think of in first place

What are the pros and cons of qualitative research?
the highs are high and the lows are low


What is the difference between Qualitative and Quantitative Research?

I would like to know the differences because I am confused about it.

What is the difference between Qualitative and Quantitative Research?
In sociology at least, quantitative refers to statistical studies -- any research that explains itself through numbers. This includes polls, percentages, censes, etc. Qualitative research is much more ambiguous and usually uses methods such as interviews, participant observation. Another important point to remember is that quantitative work is designed so that it can be used to explain a large amount of phenomena -- a statistical study of a small group can theoretically be used to make predictions about the whole population. Qualitative research, however, cannot make that leap since it often tells a story of a very specific group of people that does not necessarily reflect the experiences of the whole.





Does that make sense? I bet if you wikipedia it, they would give you a much more concise answer than I can.
Reply:quantitative: the capacity, mass, the quantity or the number of items





qualitative: is the grade, the value
Reply:Qualitative relates to quality (reasoning)


Quantative relates to numbers (statistics)