UNIT 1 AND 2.

QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

TASK 4. FINAL EXAM

STUDENT:
ANGIE JAILEN SANTAMARIA TORRES
GROUP: 551031_12

TUTOR
HELGA VALESKA LEÓN

OPEN AND DISTANCE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

2018
 1. Identify the research question in a journal article from https://doaj.org/ and discuss what
approach would be best to study the question and why.

YELLOW AND PURPLE NUTSEDGES SURVEY IN THE SOUTHEASTERN BUENOS

AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA

Why is it necessary to determine the expansion of the Cyperus species in the southeast of the

province of Buenos Aires, Argentina?

Firstly, the concept "Cyperus" should be known, these are weed plants, which affect the

production of agronomic crops or horticultural crops. These include approximately 3,000

species, of which 220 are recognized as weeds, so it is important to know how to avoid their

expansion. When carrying out this survey, we sought to determine the distribution, the infested

environments and the abundance of yellow and purple nuts in the agricultural area of the

southeast of the province of Buenos Aires, resulting in thirty-eight percent of the surveyed area

showing a strong yellow shell infestation, and in 90% of the cases the yellow rind invaded fields

grown with summer crops and was associated with one or more of seven other perennial weeds,

mainly bermudagrass.

On the other hand it was known that low temperatures significantly affect the survival of these

weeds, being an important factor to counteract them.

2. What distinguishes a quantitative study from a qualitative study? Mention three

characteristics.
The differences between a quantitative and qualitative study are the following:

 The quantitative study collects and analyzes quantitative data on variables while the
qualitative study avoids quantification and therefore focuses more on asepts or skills.
 When a qualitative study is made, the researchers make narrative records of the
phenomena that are studied through techniques such as observation and unstructured
interviews while the quantitative searches for their bases in statistics and specific data.
 While one studies the association or relationship between quantified variables and the
qualitative one, it does so in structural and situational contexts.
 One determines by force of association or correlation between variables, the
generalization and objectification of the results through a sample to make inference to a
population from which all sample comes, (quantitative).
 Another tries to identify the deep nature of realities, their system of relationships, their
dynamic structure, (qualitative).

Characteristics of the qualitative study:

 Emphasizes the validity of research through proximity to the empirical reality provided
by this methodology.
 The basis is in intuition. Research is flexible, evolutionary and recursive nature.
 In general it does not allow a statistical analysis

Characteristics of the quantitative study:

 Objectivity is the only way to achieve knowledge, so it uses exhaustive and controlled
measurement, trying to find the certainty of it.
 The object of study is the singular Empirical element. He argues that there is a
relationship of independence between the subject and the object, since the researcher has
a perspective from the outside.
 The theory is the fundamental element of Social research, it provides its origin, its
framework and its end.

REFERENCES.
Eyherabide, J – Leaden, M – Alonso, S. (2000). Yellow and purple nutsedges survey in the
southeastern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Retrieved from:
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2001000100025

Metodología de la Investigación: monografias Retrieved from:

https://sites.google.com/site/51300008metodologia/caracteristicas-cualitativa-cuantitativa