COLLAPSE SUBDISCUSSIONTrent Nguyen9:17amJul 14 at 9:17am
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Just know that research is iterative indeed and the process may go on for a while before conclusions are arrived at. Even when conclusions are made, some researchers may go back and look at some steps to see if there are areas that can be improved, in order to perfect the process a bit more to get greater validity for the results. interviews/observations are made by a researcher in the field for further data to make reach saturation when it comes to qualitative research. When using an instrument to collect data, it's best to know its validity as well as reliability for the purposes of measurement. When conducting quantitative research, there are statistical concepts that need to be understood. Therefore, it’s important to have a good grasp of these statistical concepts before moving forward to more nitty-gritty elements of conducting quantitative research. Once a research purpose is known, one can determine whether quantitative or qualitative or mixed-method could be employed, to answer the research question(s) appropriately. Some students have opted to do their dissertations qualitatively because they did not want to deal with statistics. However, they have found out that completing a qualitative research study is not easy because there are some many bases that one has to cover and the content has to be in-depth on many levels. Do you have a preference for which qualitative research method that you are inclined to employ in your dissertation study in the future?
MondayJul 12 at 7:49pm
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Week I: Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Research helps us build knowledge, understand various issues, and verify truth/facts about life and our world. Learning about developments in medical and health issues is an example. Qualitative and quantitative research are both research methodologies used to explore topics with different objectives. Qualitative research is a research strategy that uses people’s experiences typically from data collected from interviews or focus groups to describe behaviour, and beliefs. phenomenon.Qualitative research is useful for exploring new topics or understanding complex issues; for explaining people’s beliefs and behaviour; and for identifying the social or cultural norms of a culture or society (). Qualitative research is used to explain what percentage of students who attend college orientation graduate. Quantitative research alternatively is a research strategy that analyzes and quantifies numerical data collected from surveys, questionnaires, and experiments to test causal relationships. Quantitative research is used to research a correlation between students attending a college orientation and college graduation success, for example.
Research paradigms are structures for conducting research and a way of looking at something. Paradigms help researchers select the appropriate methods to be used for the research. Both interpretive and positivist paradigm are the most common paradigms.The interpretive paradigm works from the stance of understanding the world as it is from the personal experiences of individuals. The positivist paradigm asserts that real events can be observed empirically and explained with logical analysis (Kaboub, 2008). The positivists paradigm uses observations and scientific evidence to reveal a true nature of how society operates. A researcher’s viewpoint on his/her paradigm of choice depends on his/her ontological, epistemological, and methodological viewpoint. Ontology refers to the nature of being. Epistemology refers to the study of nature and the limits of human knowledge and methodology refers to the contextual framework or strategy researchers use to develop an approach to their study.At this point, I am more favorable to the interpretive paradigm because of the methods it uses in researching information such as interviewing; a method I am considering for my research.
References
Hennink, M., Hutter, I., & Bailey, A. (2011).Qualitative research methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Kaboub, F. (2008). Positivist paradigm.Encyclopedia of Counseling2 (2). 343