Week 7 of RSCH 8100 Class: Research Questions And Hypotheses...Please Check The Attached Document And Do It Accordingly

Week 7 of RSCH 8100 Class: Research Questions And Hypotheses...Please Check The Attached Document And Do It Accordingly

Introduction

When undertaking communal study there are two most routinely used methods: quantitative and qualitative; There is often the large divide between users of qualitative and quantitative methods of research. Put easily, quantitative research benefits mathematical principals and it is statistical, therefore, it is often examined as more dependable and valid. On the other hand qualitative study is founded on consulting and finding out "why" of the specific situation. Qualitative research is interpretative rather than descriptive, is non-numerical and is known for its credibility and audit ability (Denzin, 2003).

A balanced assessment of two forms of research requires the knowledge of history behind two forms of research, an in depth look at what they are and what they both entail as social research and to discover different methods that can be used within qualitative and quantitative research.

Critical Analysis

Quantitative research involves use of methods such as 'Meta analysis'. This is the technique that involves gathering of information from the samples, when methods and samples are able to relate to one another, it is pooled in raw form and can be used to make and even larger data set, or be averaged. The article I have taken for critical analysis is about the behavior of the young children's, change in their behavior because of and their impact on their studies and grades before and after examination (Gartrell 2002). Sampling strategy used in the article was Probability sampling. Probability sampling is that selection a criterion in which each sample has an equal and independent chance of occurrence. In probability sampling, simple random sampling was selected (Lozano& Eduardo 2008). First the target population was selected, and the target population according to the article was students of 8-12 years of age. They were selected from different schools. Questionnaires were given to the teachers and students and stats of their results before and after examination were used as data sets for running out test at SPSS (Tashakkori & Teddlie 2003).

Strength of quantitative research is that outcomes are statistically reliable, because it has the "strong technical nature". For example quantitative marketing research can discover that an idea, concept, product or package is better than any other product on the market.

Another benefit of quantitative study ...