Quantitative Methods



Quantitative Methods

Introduction

Research methodologies in the field of education and other social sciences are divided into two main categories: quantitative research methods and qualitative research methods. In social research, mostly quantitative research is employed. It intends towards the organized and methodical experiential analysis of societal phenomenon by means of numerical, statistical or quantifiable methods. The main purpose of quantitative study is to create and utilize statistical patterns, theoretical assumptions and/or propositions relating to observable fact. The procedure of measuring something is fundamental to quantitative study since it offers the basic relation among experiential inspection and statistical appearance of quantitative relations (Anderson & Taylor, 2009). This paper will address two research methods to investigate, and locate two peer-reviewed articles that illustrate each methodology and discuss the similarities and differences between them.

Discussion

Two Research Methods

In social research, quantitative study is used to create and make use of statistical patterns and hypothetical framework relating to any trend or observable fact. Quantitative study is usually carried out via technical methodologies, which takes account of the following measures:

Working on patterns, theoretical assumptions, and hypothetical frameworks of what the investigator looks forward to discover.

Creating tools and techniques for determining the information.

Investigational control and exploitation of different variables.

Compilation of the facts and information.

Representing and evaluating the information

Assessing the findings.

Two research methodologies are questionnaires with closed ended or open ended questions and secondary analysis (in which information has gathered by someone else in the past) (Anderson & Taylor, 2009).

A questionnaire is a study method or tool comprising of a series of questions (close and open ended) and other facts for the rationale of collecting data from participants (subject of the research). Even though, they are frequently intended for numerical study of the answers, this is not the situation that occurs always. ...