The difference between qualitative and quantitative research.

1. Greetings and
Prayers

2. Attendance

3. Qualitative Research and
Quantitative Research
• Qualitative Research
A type of educational research in
which the researcher relies on the views
of the participants.
Quantitative Research
A type of educational research in
which the researcher decides what to
study.

4. Purpose
• Qualitative Research
Explore the meaning of
people’s:
-Experiences
-Cultures
-A particular issue/case

5. Purpose
Quantitative Research
To examine the Relationship
between variables.
Variables = a characteristic
Three Kinds of Variables:
-Independent Variable
-Dependent Variable
-Extraneous

6. Purpose
Quantitative Research
Three Kinds of Variables:
1. Independent Variable - a
characteristic that is
manipulated by the
researcher.

7. Purpose
Quantitative Research
Three Kinds of Variables:
2. Dependent Variable - a
characteristic impacted by
Independent Variable.

8. Purpose
Quantitative Research
Three Kinds of Variables:
3. Extraneous – extra
characteristics (People
such as age, sex, race)

12. Independent Variable
(Poster)

13. Dependent Variable
(Hand washing)

14. Extraneous
(People- age, sex, race)

15. RQs/Hypotheses
• QUAL
Qualitative Research is exploratory.
RQs “What” “How”
“ What are SHS students experience
in trying to eat healthy on campus?”
“How do students celebrate
Christmas?
No hypotheses..exploratory..not
predictive

16. RQs/Hypotheses
• QUANT
RQs “What” “How”…”Does”
Descriptive Research…“How much? How
often? What is the relationship between ?
What is the difference?
Experimental Research
“Does handwashing increase when a poster
is placed in campus bathrooms?”
Uses Hypotheses

17. DATA
• QUAL
-1 kind of data collected in each
study
-Data in the form of words
-Interviews, documents,
observations, and audio-visual
materials.

18. DATA
• QUAL
-From the field… the natural
settings where participants are
instruments…surveys/questionnair
es
-Emergent design
-Methods change during study

19. DATA
•QUANT
•-Data as Numbers
-From Instruments

20. ANALYSIS
• QUAL
-Creating Themes
-Researches look through all the data
and organize it into themes.
-take a lot of time!
-Inductive…data formed w/out use of
theory or established views on stuff

21. ANALYSIS
• QUANT
-statistics to crunch the
numbers!
-Deductive…Data formed
w/use of theory or established
views on stuff.