The Process of Conducting Research: Exploring Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

📚 Research adds to our knowledge, addresses gaps, and replicates knowledge.

👩‍🏫 Research helps improve practice for professionals in various fields.

📝 Research helps inform policy debates and enables informed decisions.

⚠️ Common problems in research include contradictory findings, questionable data, and lack of disclosure.

🔄 The research process cycle involves problem identification, literature review, data collection, analysis and interpretation, reporting, and evaluation.

🔎 The process of conducting research involves identifying the research problem, reviewing the literature, collecting data, analyzing and interpreting the data, and reporting and evaluating the research.

💡 The significance of the study lies in identifying the individuals and organizations that can benefit from the research findings and explaining how they can benefit from it.

📚 During the review of literature, resources like books, journals, and electronic resources are located and summarized in a written report.

🔍 The research process involves several steps, including literature review, research questions, research designs, sampling, data analysis, and interpretation.

🔄 There are different types of research designs, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods.

📊 Quantitative research focuses on trends and relationships, and involves collecting numeric data from a large number of people.

🔍 In conducting research, it is important to use instruments for data collection.

📚 Constructing your own instrument involves reviewing literature and analyzing existing instruments used by other researchers.

🔬 Research should be conducted using an objective and unbiased approach, following standard structures and methodologies.

🔍 Qualitative research focuses on exploring a problem and obtaining a detailed understanding of a central phenomena.

📖 The literature review justifies the problem in qualitative research and plays a minor role in comparison to quantitative research.

💭 Qualitative research involves formulating open-ended research questions rather than closed-ended statements of the problem.

📝 Assignment: Compare the formulation of statement of problems in qualitative and quantitative research designs.

🔍 Qualitative research involves collecting data through in-depth interviews or observations with a small number of participants.

📊 The sample size in quantitative research depends on the population size.

🔎 Qualitative research involves in-depth data collection from a small number of participants.

✅ Data saturation is reached when further participants provide similar responses.

📚 Both quantitative and qualitative research have similarities in their research process and the use of interviews and observations.

❌✉️➕🔓 Differences between quantitative and qualitative research include hypothesis-driven questions in quantitative research and the open nature of qualitative research.

📊 Quantitative data analysis is based on statistics.

📝 Qualitative analysis is based on text or image analysis.

🔍 Deciding between quantitative or qualitative research design depends on factors such as the research problem, the target audience, and the researcher's experiences and training.

🔬 Different types of research designs include intervention research, correlational research, survey research, and ethnographic research.

🌍 Ethnographic research design focuses on exploring the shared culture of a group.

📜 Grounded theory research design aims to develop theories based on common experiences among individuals.

💡 Narrative research design is essential in creating history books and understanding the lives and works of people.

📊🔬 Mixed methods research involves combining quantitative and qualitative data collection to better understand and explain research problems.

🔍🧠 Ethical considerations, such as obtaining approval from institutional review boards and practicing respectful data collection procedures, are crucial in conducting research.

📚✍️ Skills needed for research include curiosity, attention to detail, library and computer resource skills, and strong writing and editing abilities.