CHARACTERISTIC OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Question 1

human beings’ worldviews, values, beliefs, likes, and dislikes are known by analyzing participants’ data about his/her mental, social, and spiritual aspects.

Answer 1

Human understanding and interpretation

Question 2

changes may always happen in qualitative research due to its inductive nature, and research design or methods should adapt to it.

Answer 2

Active, powerful, and forceful

Question 3

allows the researcher to approach the study in varied ways such as combining it with quantitative research. A qualitative study applies to all research types: descriptive, exploratory, etc.

Answer 3

Multiple research approaches/methods

Question 4

qualitative research follows an inductive method (from the particular to general)

Answer 4

Specificity to generalization

Question 5

the goal is to understand human behavior by considering the context, situations, or circumstances under a thorough examination of the participant’s way of living.

Answer 5

Contextualization

Question 6

prefers collecting data in a natural setting (observing people as they live and work, analyzing photographs or videos as they appear to people, and looking at classrooms unchanged or adjusted to people’s intentional observations).

Answer 6

Diversified data in real-life situations

Question 7

gathered data through interviews are in words, and can be presented through visual presentation such as pictures, videos, and graphs.

Answer 7

Abounds with words and visuals

Question 8

the researchers examine the data yielded by the internal traits of the subject individuals (i.e., emotional, mental, spiritual characteristics), and study people’s perception about the topic.

Answer 8

Internal analysis