Name: Badilla,Jan Allysa E.

Strand and Section: Stem I Jeruel

Module 2
(September 21 – 25, 2020)
Topic: Quantitative Research across Fields

Activity Sheet in Practical Research 2

I. APPLICATION: Explain how quantitative research can be useful in each of the

following field of study. Substantiate your explanation with examples. Write your
answers on the spaces provided below.

Area Practical Importance and Example

One of the most important things that quantitative methods lend
Education
to the field of education is establishing casuality.With something
as simple as a dummy variable regression ,you can discern
whether a learning adjustment is just correlated with learning, or
whether it actually affects key learning outcomes.
For illustrations consider this quick parable:
At a school,administrators noticed that students in two
classrooms did exceptionally better on state tests than all other
students at their grade level.After spending a couple of months
evaluating this classrooms,they realized that the teachers in both
of the high-performing classrooms always had fresh flowrs on
their desks.The next day,the administrators ordered all teachers
in the school to have fresh flowers on their desk as well.
To the surprise of the administrators,nothing changed; students
in the two classrooms continued to out perform all other
students.what the administrators has missed was simple:the
teachers had fresh flowers on their desk because they were
exceptionally effective at teaching students,and parents would
often send them flowers out of appreciation.By only focusing on
a correlate (the flowers),administrators failed to consider or test
for casuality,and in doing so failed to actually help improve their
local educational landscape.
First I want to point out that there are several different fields of
Engineering
engineering,and the “Why” can easily change a little between
them.Here’s a simple example,but applies fairly effectively
across these fields.
 Second, research basically falls into primary and
secondary.Primary means that you, the user of the research,are
also the person responsible for producing the research in the first
place.Secondary ,means you as a user,are using research
produced by someone else.
Allow a short story.Iwas tasked with designing a new machine
for a company.The company had no experience designing a
machine that performed the assigned task.No one else had
successfully develoved one either.So how does an engineer go
about the task of developing this machine?
OPTION 1: We’ll call it the monkey method.You make some
assumptions,model up some parts,do a little engineering,and
release for production.
This is the “throw enough crap on the wall until it sticks”
method.
It will very likely result in an extremely long and expensive
development time as multiple iterations are created atr full
productions costs in order to reach a finished product.
OPTION 2: We’ll call it the Divide and Conquer method.In this
method,you break out the individual aspects of a design you
don’t have knowledge of,whether it’s something that can be
learned through primary or secondary research,and how these
aspects affect each other.Then,you put together a research plan
So which option did my employer at the time pursue? OPTION
1.And it failed.over,and over again,until they have spent so much
money on it,various people (not myself) were fired or quit.Know
the facts,and know what needs to be done.Research is the
invaluable tool engineers use to discover the facts they need in
order to produce the final result they are working on.
Computer science as a research discipline has always struggled
with it’s identity.On the one hand ,it is a field deeply rooted in
Computer Science
mathematics which resulted in strong theories.1 for
example,there is computational complexity theory (turing
machine,the halting problem) data base theory (the relational
model,expressive power of query languages),formal language
theory (the chomsky hierarchy,well formedness,formal
semantics).On the other hand,it is a field deeply rooted in
engineering which resulted in machines that have completely
 warped our society:the von Neumann architecture (the basis for
digital computers),parallel processors (the new generation of
multi core machines),distributed computers (a prerequisite for
the success of the internet and recent phenomena like grid
computing).Consequently,computer science has inherited it’s
research method from the same disciplines : on the one hand,the
mathematical approach with axioms,postulates and proofs;on
the other hand the engineering approach
with,quantification,measurements and comparison.

Rubrics:

Indicators 5 4 3 2 1
1. Ideas for each field is well – integrated with quantitative
research.

2. Practical examples are necessary for each discipline.

3 Clear and organized explanations are described.

4 Logical reasons are consistent and applied base on the

module.

II. TEST YOURSELF

Read the question carefully and give your own idea about it. Write your answers on a necessary
separate sheet.
1. As a student, why it is necessary to know the importance of quantitative research across
fields?
For me, we need to know the importance of it because Quantitative research is more
easier to use over qualitative research because it is more scientific, objective, fast,
focused and acceptable. However, qualitative research is used when the researcher has
no idea what to expect. It is used to define the problem or develop and approach to the
problem.