Bicol University

GRADUATE SCHOOL
Legazpi, City

ACTIVITY 3

Student : Ma. Sharlyn A. Navia

Subject : PhD 302.01 – Qualitative Research Methods
Program : Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Management
Professor : Ma. Jane B. Mascariñas, Ph.D.

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Characteristics Qualitative Research Quantitative Research
Origins Social Science Natural Science

Positivism, objective
Naturalism, Feminism, Social, Multiple &
reality, researcher is
Philosophic Roots Subjective reality where researcher
independent of that
interacts with that being researched
which is researched

Questions or Question is evolving,

Hypothesis is informed guess or prediction
Hypothesis general and flexible
Inductive Deductive
Research Design
Flexible Systematic

Phenomenology, case
Experimental, quasi-experimental, single
Method/Types of study, ethnography,
subject and descriptive, comparative,
Research grounded theory,
correlational, ex post facto
cultural studies

Theory testing
Contribution to Theory building
Seeks explanation and
Theory Seeks explanation and solutions
universal laws

Researcher Participant, insider Observer, outsider

Researcher’s
Subjective, empathetic Objective
attitude
People are regarded
Subjects Objects
as:
Research Centre or
Location Field Based
laboratory
Non-random Random
Samples or Cases Small Large
Focus on minorities Focus on Universes

The group (family, clan, peer group, work

Focus The Individual
group)
Records Social Meanings Frequency
Numeric concept
Data Non-numeric concepts
indicators
 Personal interviews and unstructured Surveys and structured
Data Collection
interviews questionnaires

Represented by Transcripts Tables and charts

Analysis Non-statistical Statistical
Generalizability Non-claimed High
Costs Low High
Ideographic (specific to historical and Nomothetic (general
Findings
cultural context) laws)

3. Qualitative Research Title Study for Dissertation

Professional Development Barriers of Senior High School Teachers: A Qualitative Research