Understanding the terms used

Question 1

Epistemiology

Answer 1

Understanding the different types of knowledge and factors which make the information count as knowledge

Question 2

8 x Research study aims

Answer 2

1. To describe 2. To understand 3. To explain 4. To explore 5. To measure 6. To evaluate 7. To compare 8. To predict

Question 3

What are paradigms?

Answer 3

Our perspective on the world - Belief patterns and assumptions underpinning approaches to research

Question 4

Words commonly interchanged with PARADIGMS

Answer 4

Methodologies, Research Traditions, World Views

Question 5

Paradigms in quantitive research

Answer 5

Positivism / Empericism and Post-positivism. Objectively measured

Question 6

Paradigms in qualitative research

Answer 6

Constructivism and Interpretivism both are subjective.

Critical in social theory.

Question 7

Quantitative

Answer 7

Information or data that is based on quantities obtained using a quantifiable measurement process.

Question 8

Qualitative

Answer 8

Information or records that are descriptive, subjective or difficult to measure quantitively.