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UNIVERSITY CAREER:
SCHOOL PERIOD:
2021-2022
Task objective
Involve students to the introduction of qualitative research in
Education.
INSTRUCCIONES
Qualitative research allows you to ask questions that cannot be easily put into numbers
to understand the human experience. Getting to the everyday realities of some social
phenomenon and studying important issues as they are practiced really helps to expand
knowledge and understanding. To do this, you must understand the philosophical stance
of qualitative research and work from it to develop the research question, study design,
data collection methods, and data analysis. In this article, I provide an overview of the
assumptions underlying qualitative research and the role of the researcher in the
qualitative process. Then I go on to discuss the kinds of research objectives that are
common in qualitative research, then I introduce the main qualitative designs, data
collection tools, and finally the basics of qualitative analysis. I present the criteria by
which the quality of qualitative research can be judged. Many classic references are
cited in this article, and I urge you to seek out some of these additional reading to
inform your qualitative research program
* What are the main differences between qualitative research and quantitative research?
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Quantitative research is one in which quantitative data on variables are collected and
analyzed. Qualitative research prevents quantification. Qualitative researchers make
narrative records of the phenomena that are studied using techniques such as participant
observation and unstructured interviews. The fundamental difference between both
methodologies is that the quantitative one studies the association or relationship
between quantified variables and the qualitative one does so in structural and situational
contexts. Qualitative research tries to identify the deep nature of realities, their system
of relationships, their dynamic structure. Quantitative research tries to determine the
strength of association or correlation between variables, the generalization and
objectification of the results through a sample to make inference to a population from
which every sample comes. After studying the association or correlation, it intends, in
turn, to make a causal inference that explains why things happen or not in a certain way.