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QUANTITATIVE
Note: Please refer to the prescribed textbook for the definition of some
terminologies on this topic, pp. 10-13, 20-28.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
PARADIGM VS.
“QUALI”
“QUANTI”
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“…has clearly defined research
questions to which objective
answers are sought.”
Babbie,
2010
“…aims to classify features, count them,
and construct statistical models in an
attempt to explain what is observed.”
Babbie,
2010
TYPES OF
QUANTITATI (Barrot, 2017)
(Melegrito & Mendoza, 2016)
DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH
Defining
‣ aims to de fine the e xisting
Features
condition of a variable
Examples:
Goal
Assessing Nurses’ Attitudes Toward Death
▸ to observe and to report on
and Caring for Dying Patients in a
a certain phenomenon Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Lange, M.,
Thom, B., Kline, N. E., 2008)
Defining Features
‣ very similar to true experiments but with
key dissimilarities (1) an
independent v a r i a b l e i s i d e n t i Examples:
fi e d b u t n o t manipulated and (2)
the effects of the independent variable The Impact of Smoking Bans on Smoking
on the dependent variable are and Consumer Behavior: Quasi-
measured. Experimental Evidence from Switzerland
(Boes, S., Marti, J., Maclean, J. C., 2014)
Goal
‣ to e stab li cause -and-e ffe The effect of studying in Catholic
srelationships
h ct school on the moral value system of
those who graduate from these schools
Variables & Experimental Manipulation:
▸ Experimental manipulation may have The effect of gender on college course
indi idual choices
▸ limited use.
Intact groups are used; v
The effects of good family upbringing to
sub je cts are randomly assig ne d good performance in class.
to treatment and control groups.
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
Defining Features
‣ usually termed as true experimentation;
considered as a “laboratory study”
Examples:
Goal
Effects of Mobile Technology Use on
‣ to e stab li cause -and-e ffe
Walking (Perlmutter, S., et al, 2014)
srelationships
h ct
The effect of a Math terror teacher on
Variables & Experimental Manipulation: students’ attitude about attending Math
▸ Experimental manipulation is used. class under that teacher
▸ Intact groups are not used;
The effect of a kind and supportive
individual sub je cts are randomly homeroom adviser on the students’
assig ne d to treatment and control helpfulness
▸ groups.
The random assignment of The effect of peer counselling and
support group on a student’s emotional
individual subjects provides more
condition
conclusiveness as to the causal
relationships between variables.