POS Week 7

Quantitative research

collection of numerical data; exhibiting a view of the relationship between theory and research as deductive; a predilection for natural science approach (positivism)

Quantitative research design

experimental - medical; cross-sectional - observing a sample at the single point; longitudinal - sample at more than one point; case study - single case; comparative

Qualitative research

emphasises words; inductive view of the relationship between theory and research; epistemological position stressing the understanding of the social world, in contrast to the adoption of a natural scientific model in quantitative research

Quantitative Research methods

ethnography; qualitative interviewing; focus group; language-based approaches to the collection of qualitative data; the collection and qualitative analysis of texts and documents

Similarities between quantitative and qualitative

data reduction; answering research questions, variation, importance of transparency