Week 1 Flashcards
What is quantitative research?
A type of educational research in which the researchers decides:
- What to study
- Specific questions to ask
- Collects quantifiable data from respondents and analyze these numbers using statistics
- Conducts the inquiry in an objective and unbiased manner
Concerned with numbers and its relationship with events
Quantitative research
Identify what type of quantitative research
Seeks to describe the current status of an identified variable according to its degree, level, frequency and extent.
Descriptive research
Identify what type of quantitative research
These research projects are designed to provide systematic information about a phenomenon
Descriptive research
Identify what type of quantitative research
The researchers does not usually begin with a hypothesis, but is likely to develop one after collecting data
Descriptive research
Quantitative research is the most reliable and valid way of concluding results giving way to a new hypothesis or to disproving it.
True
Data reduced to numeric scores
Characteristic of quantitative research
Preference for precisely describing procedures
Characteristic of quantitative research
Quantitative research is a subjective and unbiased inquiry on a certain event or phenomenon
False (Objective)
Quantitative research is described in narrative form.
False
Identify what type of quantitative research
A hypothesis is required at the onset of the study and relationships between and among a number of facts are sought and interpreted
Correlational research
This type of research will recognize trends and patterns in data, but it does not go so far in its analysis to prove the causes for these observed patterns
Correlational research
Give the 4 kinds of quantitative research
- Correlational
- Descriptive
- Casual comparative/quasi-experimental
- Experimental
Identify what type of quantitative research
An independent variable is identified but not manipulated by the experimenter, and effects of the independent variable on the dependent variable is measured
Casual-Comparative/Quasi-experimental
Identify what type of quantitative research
Research attempts to establish cause-effect relationships among the variables. These type of research design are very similar to true experiments but with some key differences
Casual-Comparative/ Quasi-experimental
What are the key differences between Quasi-experimental and Experimental research?
The sampling technique used and the manipulation of the independent variable(Quasi-experimental does not while true experimental does)
Often called the true experimentation, uses the scientific method to establish the cause-effect relationship among a group of variables that make up a study
Experimental research
Identify what type of quantitative research
Is any study where an effort is made to identify and impose control over all other variables.
Experimental research
Subjects are randomly assigned to experimental treatments rather than identified in naturally occuring group
Experimental research
Identify what type of quantitative research
A description of the extent to which elementary teachers use math manipulatives
Descriptive research
Random groups are selected in true experiment.
True
The level or extent of an occurrence id measured descriptive research
True
What are the weakness of quantitative research?
- Costly, difficult, and time-consuming
- Requires extensive statistical treatment, requiring stringed standards, more so with confirmation of results
- Tends to only turn out as proved or unproven, leaving little room for uncertainty
Because of a bigger number of the sample population,the results or generalizations are more reliable and valid
Strength of quantitative research
Quantitative experiments filter out external factors, if properly designed, and so the results gained can be seen as real or unbiased
Strength of quantitative research
Correlational studies does not require a hypothesis
False
The independent variable in Quasi-experimental is identified and manipulated by the researcher
False
The relationship between intelligence and self-esteem
Correlational research
Non-probability sampling is used in this type of quantitative research
Quasi-experimental/Casual-Comparative
True experiments are always done in a laboratory setting
False
