Qualitative Versus Quantitative Research
There is a listing of key points in the debate of Qualitative versus Quantitative research at wilderdom.com . This breakdown shows the features, main points, and some other recommended links to this classic debate. A direct link is as follows: http://wilderdom.com/research/QualitativeVersusQuantitativeResearch.html . Basically in qualitative the aim is a complete, detailed description whereas in quantitative the aim is to classify features, count them, and construct statistical models in an attempt to explain what is being observed. Follow the links and be prepared for a complete layout of the information that you need!
Posted by yvonnew on 8/29/2009
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Overly focusing on the debate of "qualitative versus quantitative" frames the methods in opposition. It is important to focus also on how the techniques can be integrated, such as in mixed methods research.
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I am amazed how often we hear qualitative researchers applying their standards to quantitative research or quantitative researchers applying their standards to qualitative research. Each functions within different assumptions.
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employ an "insider's" perspective; this makes qualitative research an intensely personal and subjective style of research. ... Identify the following as related to either qualitative or quantitative research...
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QUANTITATIVE "VERSUS" QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: THE WRONG QUESTION ... This paper examines the qualitative "versus" quantitative debate by focussing on the definitions put forward in the library and information science (LIS) literature, identifying the characteristics attributed to the two, and assessing whether or not there is...
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What distinguishes qualitative research from quantitative research? ... Topics discussed were qualitative versus quantitative debate; evaluation's purpose; professionalization; program failure; program development; evaluators as advocates; evaluation knowledge; evaluation expansion; and methodology and design.
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Qualitative Versus Quantitative Research Paradigms ... Researchers have long debated the relative value of qualitative and quantitative inquiry (Patton, 1990). Phenomenological inquiry, or qualitative research, uses a naturalistic approach that seeks to understand phenomena in context-specific settings.
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I find it useful when thinking about this debate to distinguish between the general assumptions involved in undertaking a research project (qualitative, quantitative or mixed) and the data that are collected.
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Chapter 2: QUALITATIVE VERSUS QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ... As mentioned in the previous chapter, qualitative research is often contrasted with quantitative research. The picture is complicated when we consider that within each of these broad categories, which we described in Chapter 1, there are what can be called 'sub schools...
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Observation || Quantitative & Qualitative Research || Documents as data || selecting a case ||Kinds of questions || Generalization || Terms in Phenomenology || Final Project ||
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