Practical Research 2

Importance of Quantitative
Research Across Fields
Quarter 1, Module 2

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IMPORTANCE OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH MATCHING TYPE.

ACROSS FIELDS
It is expected that after using this module entitled,
“IMPORTANCE OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS
FIELDS“, the learners will be able to:
Directions: Match item in COLUMN A with those of
COLUMN B by placing the letter of the correct answers in the
space provided in column A from among the choices I column B.
Identify what discipline the given research title is related.
COLUMN A  COLUMN B 

___1.What Effect do Punitive A. QUANTI &

1. Illustrates the importance of quantitative research across fields .
Behavioral Control State- ANTHROPOLOGY
ments have on Classroom?

___2. Video Integration in B. QUANTI &

Teaching Science in Grade 12 COMMUNICATION
In doing this module, the following of Upper Tumapoc National
are some reminders: High School.

___3. Relationship of Physical

1. Take the pretest before
Activity to the Amount of Adi- C. QUANTI & SPORTS
answering the module. pose Tissue and Endurance MED.
2. Read the instructions carefully Fitness of Children Aged 15 –
22 in Burgos, La Union.
before doing each task.
3. Answer all the exercises. ___4.Factors Affecting Quality D. QUANTI & MEDICAL ED.
of Medical Education in Saint
4. Take the posttest. Louis University.
5. Use a separate sheet in
___5.Relationship of Verbally E. QUANTI & BEHAVIORAL
answering all the activities. Aggressive Behavior to the SCI.
Physical Aggression of a Per-
son.
 
___6. Ethnographic Study: F. QUANTI & EDUCATION
Changes of Aeta Behaviors in
past 5 years.

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ESSAY.
Discuss briefly, what is ask below.
Choose two disciplines enumerated above (column B) and
explain how quantitative research was used on it.
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Quantitative research is an objective, systematic empirical
investigation of observable phenomena through the use of
computational techniques. It highlights numerical analysis of
data hoping that the numbers yield unbiased results that can be
generalized to some larger population and explain a particular
observation. Simply, quantitative research is concerned with
numbers and its relationship with events.
CHARACTERISTICS OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
-OBJECTIVE.
-CLEARLY DEFINED RESEARCH QUESTIONS.
-STRUCTURED RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS.
-NUMERICAL DATA.
-LARGE SAMPLE SIZES.
-REPLICATION.
   

  Health Sciences (Medical Technology, Dentistry, Nursing,

Medicine, etc.) use quantitative research designs like descriptive, pre
-experimental, quasi-experimental, true-experiment, case study,
IMPORTANCE OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS among others.

People do research to find solutions, even tentative ones, QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH & ACCOUNTING, BUSINESS and
to problems, in order to improve or enhance ways of doing things, MANAGEMENT (ABM)
to disprove or provide a new hypothesis, or simply to find answers
Researches can help design a new product or service, figur-
to questions or solutions to problems in daily life. Research
ing out what is needed and ensure the development of product is
findings can affect people’s lives, ways of doing things, laws, rules
highly targeted towards demand. Businessmen can also utilize re-
and regulations, as well as policies, among others. Widely,
search results to guarantee sufficient distribution of their products
quantitative research is often used because of its emphasis on
and decide where they need to increase their product distribution.
proof rather than discovery.
Conducting researches can also help a business determine whether
now is the proper time to open another branch or whether it needs to
In recent times, research studies are gaining an
apply for a new loan. It may also help a small business decide if a
unprecedented focus and attention. Then, only the faculty in higher
procedure or strategy should be change to meet the requirements of
education has so much interest and conduct researchers, but now
the customer base. Research is important for any organization to
even the teachers in the basic education are engrossed in
remain in the market. The primary function of research in ABM is to
researches and devote time and effort in conducting researches to
correctly determine its customers and their preferences, establish
improve educational practices that may lead to more quality
the enterprise in the most feasible location, deliver quality goods and
learning of the students. Many teachers do action researches
services, analyze what the competitors are doing and find ways on
because there is a serious need to identify the problems of the
how to continuously satisfy the growing and varied needs of the cli-
deteriorating quality of education. By doing so, they can address
ents.
systematically and make educational decisions regarding the
problems met. Innovative teaching strategies are product of QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and ANTHROPOLOGY
research.
Anthropology is a research method of combining qualitative
and quantitative research data. It is concerned with exploring con-
In the natural and social sciences, quantitative research is
nections simultaneously, amidst cultural differences, alternatives and
the systematic, empirical investigation of observable phenomena
identity. In the contemporary academic, socio-cultural and political
via statistical, mathematical or computational techniques. The
climate these concepts have immense symbolic overtones.
objective of quantitative research is to develop and employ
Quantitative research is use in Anthropology in many as-
mathematical models, theories and/or hypotheses pertaining to
pects. Like, true experiments may use in studying people provided
phenomena. The process of measurement is central to quantitative
that you follow certain steps (Bernard, 2004). This is to look into the
research because it provides the fundamental connection between
Effects of an intervention in ethnic behavior of a group. In here, you
empirical observation and mathematical expression of quantitative
need at least two groups, called the treatment group and the control  
relationships.
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group. On group gets the intervention and the other group don’t.
Next, individuals may be randomly assigned, either to the
intervention group or to the control group to ensure that the
groups are equivalent. Then, the groups are measured on one or
more dependent variables; this is called the pre-test. After which,
the intervention is introduced. Lastly, the dependent variables are
measured again. This is the post test.
True in experiments with people in laboratory are also common.
Laboratory experiments often produce results that beg to be tested in the
natural world by Anthropologists. Aaron and Mills (1959, as cited by
Bernard, 2004) demonstrated in a lab experiment that people who go
through severe initiation to a group tend to be more positive toward the
group than are people who go through a mild initiation. They reasoned
that people who go through tough initiation rites put a lot of personal
investments into getting into the group. Later, if people see evidence that
the group is not what they thought it would be, they are reluctant to admit
the fact because of the investments.
In Field, Janet Schofield and her colleagues did a 3 year
ethnographic study in middle school. During the first year, they noticed
that African-American and while children seemed to react differently to
“mildly aggressive acts’ – things like bumping in the hallway, poking one
another in the classroom, asking for food, or using another student’s
pencil without permission. There appeared to be no event of racial
conflict in the school, but during interviews while students were more
likely to report being intimidated by their African-American peers than
vice versa (Sagar& Schofield, 1980, as cited by Bernard, 2004)
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and COMMUNICATION
Researchers are often interested in how an understanding of a
particular communication phenomenon might generalize to a larger
population. For example, researchers can advance questions like “What
Effect do punitive behavioral control statements have on a classroom?
What communicative behaviors are associated with different stages in
romantic relationships? What communicative behaviors are used to
respond to co-workers displaying emotional stress? (Allen, Titsworth,
Hunt, 2009)
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QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and SPORTS MEDICINE
Quantitative research is used to analyze how sports may be
used as an alternative way of medicating an illness. An example is the
research done by University of Eastern Finland which investigated the
relationship between mushrooming of fast food chains and obesity, as
well as the intervention needed to prevent children’s obesity from
reaching serious proportions. The research focused on the children’s
physical activity and physical inactivity and the concomitant impact on
the children’s amount of adipose tissue (fat mass) and the endurance
fitness. The study is used to analyze certain the effect of physical activity
in weight control.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and MEDICAL EDUCATION
Quantitative research in medical education tends to be
predominantly observational research based on surveys or
correlational studies. The designs test interventions like
curriculum, teaching-learning process, or assessment with an
experimental group. Either a comparison or controlled group
learners may allow researchers to overcome validity concerns and
infer potential cause-effect generalizations. Researchers are using
to cope with the emerging trends in recent times.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Relationship Questions in today’s quantitative trend tend to
explore how one behavior exhibited by people is related to other
types of behavior. Examples are verbally aggressive behaviors
related to physical aggression – that is, when a person has a level
of verbally aggressive behavior, does he or she tend to be
physically aggressive? Are certain supervisor communication
skills related to the emotional experiences of employees?
Questions of difference explore how patterns of behavior
or perceptions might differ from one group or type of a person to
another: Do people with disabilities experience emotional labor
differently from those without disabilities? Do women perceive
talkativeness (or lack of it) differently form men? Do
communication styles differ from one culture to the next? (Alle,
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When quantitative researchers explore questions of
differences or questions of relationships, they do so in an attempt to
uncover certain patterns of behavior. If the researcher discovers
that a certain relationship exists in sample that she or he has drawn
form the population, she/he is then in a position to draw
generalizations about patterns expected of human behavior.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
Quasi Experiments are most often used in evaluating social
problems. Suppose a researcher has invented a technique for
improving reading comprehension among third graders. She/he
selects two third grade classes in a school district.
One of them gets the intervention and the other doesn’t.
Students are measured before and after the intervention to see
whether their reading scores improve. This design contains many of
the elements of true experiment, but the participants are not
assigned randomly to the treatment and control groups.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and PSYCHOLOGY
Mertens (2005) says that the dominant paradigms that
guided early psychological research were positivism and its
successor, post positivism. Positivism is based on rationalistic,
empiricist philosophy that originated with Aristotle, Francis Bacon,
John Locke, August Comte, and Immanuel Kant. the underlying
assumptions of positivism include the belief that the social world
can be studied in the same way as the natural world, that there is a
method for studying the social world that is value-free, and that
explanations of a causal nature can be provided.
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QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH & SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY,
ENGINEERING, and MATHEMATICS
Medical practitioners, for example, conduct researches to
obtain significant information about diseases trends and risk factors,
results of various health interventions, patterns of care and health
care cost and use. The different approaches to research provide
complementary insights. Researchers help in determining the
effectiveness and even side effect of drugs and therapies in
different populations and various institutions. It is also necessary in
evaluating experiences in clinical practice in order to develop
mechanisms for best practices and to ensure high quality patient
care. Researchers in these fields ultimately aim for man’s longevity.
As for engineers, architects, and other builders, research
helps in providing designs which are creatively beautiful and at the
same time give more convenience and efficiency as they utilize
modern technology to adapt to the ever changing society. New
materials and procedures may be developed so as to further
strengthen the structural materials than can withstand various
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IMPORTANCE OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS CONCEPT MAP.

FIELDS Directions: Complete the concept map presented below. You add
figures as long as you will use your creativity using the figures
▪QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH & ACCOUNTING, BUSINESS and given. Present the importance of quantitative research to different
MANAGEMENT (ABM) fields. Maximize the space below.
▪QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and ANTHROPOLOGY  
▪QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and COMMUNICATION
▪QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and SPORTS MEDICINE  
▪QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and MEDICAL EDUCATION  
▪QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
▪QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATION  
▪QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH and PSYCHOLOGY  
▪QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH & SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, EN-
GINEERING, and MATHEMATICS

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Assessment Rubric 
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0 pts.  1pt.  3 pts.  4 pts.  5 pts. 
This serves as your summative test. Answer the questions below
following the instruction given in each test.   No Answer  Needs Im- Answers  Answers  Answers 
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ESSAY. Briefly explain what is asked below. Content  answer  Answers  compre- rate and  prehensive
5 pts.  ques on  are par al  hensive or  complete.  , accurate 
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five Field and explain how quantitative research is interconnected plete. Key  stated. Key  are stated  plete. Key 
with it. points are  points are  and sup- ideas are 
not clear.  addressed,  ported.  clearly 
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detract  Structure  follow.  to follow. 
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Conven- Did not  provement  three to  one to  no errors 
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5 pts.  ques on  over five  in spelling,  rors in  punctua-
(spelling,  errors in  punctua- spelling,  on, gram-
punctua- spelling,  on, gram- punctua- mar, and 
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