Prepared by :

Mark Lloyd M. Coloma, LPT, MACDDS

1.Identify the characteristics, strengths,
and weaknesses of qualitative research.
2.Obtain a thorough or in-depth knowledge
and understanding of qualitative research.
3.Give the uses of qualitative research in
different areas or fields.
Directions : INDIVIDUAL WORK.
Read silently the sentences below.
Recall whatever previous knowledge you
have about qualitative research to know
their meanings. Get clues also from how
they were used in the sentences.
Find the meaning of the succeeding words.
1. premium
- Which must you put a premium on, good
reputation or material wealth?
2. emanating
- Feelings that are emanating from the
orphan reflect his social indifference.
3. constantly
-Pray constantly as if it was an act of
breathing and eating.
4. fixated
- Don’t allow yourself to be fixated on
such line of thinking.

5. abound
- Cultivate an area abound with
earthworms for hamburger
production.
- It is a research type that
puts premium or high
value on people’s thinking
or point of view
conditioned by their
personal traits.
 According to Coghan in 2014,
tend to admire or
appreciate people’s ideas based on
their answers or your observations
and analysis of certain objects .
 1.HUMAN
UNDERSTANDING
shows an AND through their
individual’ INTERPRETATION worldviews,
you come to
s mental, know what
social and kind of
human being
spiritual he or she is,
including his
understan DATA ANALYSIS or her
values,
ding of beliefs, likes
the world and dislikes
 the need to amend or rephrase
interview questions and consider
varied ways of getting answers
2. ACTIVE, Shifting from mere speculating to
POWERFUL, traveling to places for data gathering
AND
FORCEFUL You are not fixated to a certain plan.

You are inclined to discover

your qualitative research
design as your study gradually
unfolds or reveals itself in
accordance with your
research objectives.
 allows you to approach or plan
your study in varied
ways.
3. MULTIPLE You are free to combine this
RESEARCH with quantitative research and
APPROACHES use all gathered data and
AND METHODS analysis techniques.

Being a multi-method research, a

qualitative study applies to all
research types : descriptive,
exploratory, explanatory, case
study, etc.
 4. SPECIFICITY TO
GENERALIZATION

It follows an Start thinking of

particular or SPECIFIC
INDUCTIVE or
concept that will
SCIENTIFIC eventually lead you to
method MORE COMPLEX ideas
of thinking. such as
GENERALIZATIONS or
CONCLUSIONS.
 5.CONTEXTUALIZATION

It is CRUCIAL for you to

Your goal here EXAMINE the context or
is to situation of an individual’s
UNDERSTAND life
human – the WHO, WHAT, WHY, HOW,
and other circumstances –
behavior. affecting his or her way of life.
 6. DIVERSIFIED
DATA IN REAL-LIFE
SITUATIONS

prefers looking at
collecting data analyzing classrooms
in a NATURAL photographs unchanged
setting like or videos as or adjusted
observing they to people’s
people as genuinely intentional
they live and appear to observations
work people
 7. ABOUNDS WITH WORDS
AND VISUALS

Presenting
Words, people’s world
words, Data gathering views through
and more through interviews,
visual
presentation
words library readings and (pictures, videos,
come in the presentation of drawings, and
big data analysis graphs) are
quantity in results, is DONE significantly used
in this research.
this of VERBALLY.
research.
 8. INTERNAL
ANALYSIS
In case of objects (books
and artworks) that are
Examine the data subjected to qualitative
yielded by the Study people’s
perception or research, the
INTERNAL investigation centers on
views about
TRAITS UNDERLYING THEORIES
your topic, NOT or PRINCIPLES that
of the subject the effects of
individuals govern these materials
their physical and their USEFULNESS to
(emotional, existence on people.
mental, spiritual your study.
characteristics)
 1. It adopts a
NATURALISTIC 2. It promotes a
APPROACH to its full
subject matter, which understanding of
human behavior
means that those or personality
involve in the research traits in
understand things based their natural
on what they find setting.
MEANINGFUL.
 4. It engenders
3.It is respect for
people’s
instrumental individuality as it
demands the
for positive researcher’s
careful and
societal attentive stand
toward people’s
changes. world views.
 6. It increases the
researcher’s
5. It is a way of interest in the
understanding study as it includes
the researcher’s
and experience or
interpreting background
social knowledge in
interpreting verbal
interactions. and visual data.
7. It offers
multiple ways
of acquiring
and examining
knowledge
about
something.
1. It involves a 2. It is hard
lot of to know the
researcher’s validity
subjectivity in or reliability of
data analysis. the data.
3. Its open-ended
questions yield
“data overload” 5. It involves several
that requires long- processes, which
time analysis. results greatly
depend on the
researcher’s views
or interpretations.

4. It is time-
consuming.
- Presentation of the topic 50%
- Content 30%
- Visual 10%
- Teamwork 10%
SOURCES :
Practical Research 1 C. 2016 pp. 19-25
By : Baraceros ,Es ther L.

Practical Qualitative Res earch Writing C. 2016

pp. 18-28
By : Bueno, David C. , Ed.D.
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Prepared by :
Mark Lloyd M. Coloma, LPT, MACDDS