Practical Research (Module 2)

Ramos, Aeron B. 11-HE Watermelon

Answer the following questions.
1. Is it possible to combine two research processes in one topic? Explain
your answer.
- Qualitative research is used to describe and give meaning to real events,
thus they may not be able to be merged. Quantitative analysis, on the other
hand, is a rigorous, objective, and systematic method of gathering data
about the world. A technique for describing, testing, and investigating
cause-and-effect relationships.
2. Why is qualitative research important? Explain your answer.
- Qualitative research is critical in educational research because it answers
the "how" and "why" questions and allows for a deeper knowledge of
experiences, phenomena, and context. To better comprehend human
experience, qualitative research allows you to ask questions that are
difficult to quantify.
3. Discuss what you have learned about qualitative research in one
paragraph (at least 150 words)
- Qualitative research is a catch-all term for what I've learned. Some
qualitative researchers do not adhere to any particular tradition, instead
opting for broad ideas such as hearing the voices of those being
investigated and employing the researcher as a conduit. The traits or
features of something are described by researching objects in a naturalistic
manner, looking at the full item, and avoiding testing ideas. Quantitative
studies cannot match the information that studies can reveal about human
behavior, emotion, and personality characteristics. Qualitative data consists
of knowledge on user behaviors, requirements, desires, routines, use
cases, and a range of other factors that go into building a product that fits
into a user's life, entails looking into a natural phenomena. The actual world
It permits the researcher to be more adaptive to new designs rather than
being restricted by rigidity of the research projects.
Activity 1
Organize the ideas that you have learned in this to by jotting down
important concepts through a table shown below.
Qualitative Research Important Cocepts to Remember
1. Ethnography 1. Ethnography is the study of
cultures through close observation,
reading, and interpretation.
2. Ethnographic researchers work
“in the field,” in the culture which
they are studying.
3. Ethnographic researchers learn
how to recognize traits that make
up a culture and how to describe it
to others.
4. Ethnography is used in many
disciplines, among them
anthropology, political and social
studies, education, and others.
5. Ethnography is the study of
cultures, before going any further, it
is important to define the word
“culture.”
2. Phenomenology 1. Phenomenology comes from the
academic disciplines of philosophy
and psychology, and it is based
upon the work of the 20th century
philosopher Edmund Husserl,
which was then later developed by
Heidegger.
2. Phenomenology refers to a
person's perception of the meaning
of an event, as opposed to the
event as it exists externally to
(outside of) that person.
3. The focus of phenomenologic
inquiry is what people experience in
regard to some phenomenon or
other and how they interpret those
 experiences.
4. A phenomenological research
study is a study that attempts to
understand people's perceptions,
perspectives and understandings of
a particular situation (or
phenomenon).
5. A phenomenological research
study tries to answer the question
'What is it like to experience such
and such?'.By looking at multiple
perspectives of the same situation,
a researcher can start to make
some generalizations of what
something is like as an experience
from the 'insider's' perspective.
3. Case Study 1. A case study is an in depth study
of a particular situation rather than
a sweeping statistical survey.
2. The case study research design
is also useful for testing whether
scientific theories and models
actually work in the real world
3. The advantage of the case study
research design is that you can
focus on specific and interesting
cases
4. The first foundation of the case
study is the subject and relevance.
In a case study, you are
deliberately trying to isolate a small
study group, one individual case or
one particular population.
5. In the design of a case study, it is
important to plan and design how
you are going to address the study
and make sure that all collected
data is relevant.
4. Grounded Theory 1. Grounded theory looks at a
particular situation and tries to
 understand what is going on.
2. Some researchers are attracted
to grounded theory because the
research being conducted can be
taken beyond a particular data set
and applied to theoretical issues.
3. Grounded theory looks at a
particular situation and tries to
understand what is going on
(Glaser, 1967).
4. This data analysis technique
involves comparing data from one
interview (or observation) with data
from another interview (or
observation).
5. He suggests that a theory quickly
emerges.
5. Biographical 1.
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Activity 1
Individual
Look for two abstracts of a qualitative research and write an essay of
about 250 – 300 words on what you have learned about the research
conducted based on the abstract