Ghislaine Joyce DJ.

Obina

12 - HUMSS 1

Assignment in Quantitative Research

1. What is Research?

-The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to
establish facts and reach new conclusions.

-Research comprises creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock
of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society and the use of
this stock of knowledge to devise new application. It is used to establish or confirm
facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support
theories, or develop new theories.

2. What are the 10 steps in doing research?

Step 1: Identify the Problem.

Step 2: Review the Literature.

Step 3: Clarify the Problem.

Step 4: Clearly Define Terms and Concepts.

Step 5: Define the Population.

Step 6: Develop the Instrumentation Plan.

Step 7: Collect Data.

Step 8: Analyze the Data.

3. What are the qualities of a good researcher?

1. Friendly with Respondents. A good researcher must have the quality to become
friendly with respondents. It should have to talk to them in the same language in
which the responding are answering and make happy made.

2. Least Discouragement. If the people are not co-operate to give correct data, the
researcher should not be discouraged and face the difficulties, it would be called a
good researcher.
3. Free From Prejudice. A researcher would be good if he has no prejudice or bias
study about a problematic situation but he is capable of providing clear
information’s.

4. Capacity of Depth Information. A researcher should have the capacity to collect

more and more information in little time.

5. Accuracy. A researcher would be said to be good, if he is accurate in his views.

His ideas must be accurate one.

6. Truthful. A researcher must have to be truthful. Its idea would be free from false
reports and saying information.

7. Keen Observer. It is the quality of a good researcher that he may have the ideas
of keen and deep observation.

8. Careful in Listening. A researcher would be more careful in listening. He would

have the quality of listening very low information’s even whispering.

9. Low Dependency on Common Sense. A researcher should be called good if he

has low dependency on common sense but keep in observation all the events and
happenings.

10. Least time Consumer. Good researcher must have the capacity of least time
consuming. It will have to do more work in a little time because of the shortage of
time.

11. Economical. Good researcher must have control over his economic resources.
He has to keep his finances within limits and spend carefully.

12. Low Care of Disapprovals of Society. A good researcher have no care of the
approvals or disapprovals but doing his work with zeal and patience to it.

13. Expert in Subject. A researcher would be a good one if he has full command
over his subject. He makes the use of his theoretical study in field work easily.

14. Free From Hasty Statements. It is not expected from a good researcher to
make his study hasty and invalid with wrong statements. Its study must be based
on reality & validity.

15. Good in Conversation. The conversation of a good researcher should be

sympathetic and not boring. He must have the skill and art to be liked by the
people.

16. Having Clear Terminology. A good researcher’s terminology would be clear. It

would be free from out wards to become difficult for the respondents to answer.
17. Trained in Research Tools. Research is impossible without its techniques and
tools. So, it should be better for a researcher to know about the use of these tools.

18. Dress and Behavior same to the area. The dress and the behavior of the
researcher should be same as to the study area. it is must for him to convince the
people easily and adopt their dress.

19. More Analytical. A researcher would be different from other people of the
society. On the basis of this quality he may observe the situation very well. Then he
should be able to solve the problems easily.

20. Equality and Justice. A good researcher should believe on equality and justice.
As equal to all type of people he may collect better information’s from the
respondents.

4. What are the different kinds of researches? (give some example 2 each)

-Applied vs Basic research. Applied research is research designed to solve a

particular problem in a particular circumstance, such as determining the cause of
low morale in a given department of an organization. Basic research is designed to
understand the underlying principles behind human behavior. For example, you
might try to understand what motivates people to work hard at their jobs. This
distinction is discussed in more detail in another handout.

-Exploratory vs Confirmatory. Exploratory research is research into the unknown. It

is used when you are investigating something but really don't understand it all, or
are not completely sure what you are looking for. It's sort of like a journalist whose
curiousity is peaked by something and just starts looking into something without
really knowing what they're looking for. Confirmatory research is where you have a
pretty good idea what's going on. That is, you have a theory (or several theories),
and the objective of the research is to find out if the theory is supported by the
facts.

-Quantitative vs Qualitative. Quantitative studies measure variables with some

precision using numeric scales. For example, you might measure a person's height
and weight. Or you might construct a survey in which you measure how much
respondents like President Clinton, using a 1 to 10 scale. Qualitative studies are
based on direct observation of behavior, or on transcripts of unstructured
interviews with informants. For example, you might talk to ten female executives
about the decision-making process behind their choice to have children or not, and
if so, when. You might interview them for several hours, tape-recording the whole
thing, and then transcribe the recordings to written text, and then analyze the text.
5. Give 5 example titles in qualitative and quantitative (5 each)

-Qualitative

1. Developing a leadership identity.

2. Predisposition factors of career and technical education transfer.

3. The cultural ecology of scholar practitioner leaders.

4. Multi-culturalism in technology-based education: Case studies on ICT.

5. Unheard and Unseen: How housing insecure African American's adolescents

experience the education system.

-Quantitative

1. A Quantitative study of social media users in the Philippines.

2. A Quantitative study of computer games effects on the study of senior high

school students in the national teachers college.

3. Violence in sports, domestic violence and other violence methods and how to
reduce them , how they are effecting , how to rescue from violence.

4. Greenhouse effect boosts global warming: myth or truth? Like that you can talk
about an environmental protection