Fundamentals

What is quantitative research?

• social research that employs empirical methods

• non-numerical research

• Subjective type of research

Quantitave research explains phenomena by collecting...

• in-depth interviews

• numerical data

• case studies

Key element of all types of reserch

• logic

• mathematical methods

• explaining phenomena

An important element to analyze data

• open-ended questions

• statistics

• attitudes

We can design research instruments to convert almost any phenomena into quantitative data.

• True

• False

• The teacher never mentioned this

Qualitative researchers view the world as reality that can be objetively determined.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

Provides estimates from a sample that can be related to the entire population.

• Subjectivism

• Ethnographic research

• Survey research

The people or things we collect data on or from are known as:

• variables

• research units

• hypothesis

Tentative explanation that accounts for a set of facts and can be tested for investigation.

• Phenomena

• Sampling

• Hypothesis

Any characteristic of the unit we are interested in and want to collect.

• variable

• unit

• hypothesis