UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGOGICA NACIONAL FRANCISCO MORAZAN

CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO REGIONAL SAN PEDRO SULA

ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT

FPM2402.14 Qualitative Investigation Methodology II-06-24-2022

M.Ed. Irma Ruth Mendoza Rosales Value: 20%

Due date: Tuesday, July 5th

Participants complete name and registration No.

1-Heidy Daniela Gomez Reyes-0801199911474

2-Angie Abigail Vásquez Fernandez 0501199909579

Objectives:
1. Distinguish the characteristics of the quantitative and qualitative research through
the analysis of some videos’ content.

2. Select the topic of investigation to develop it in groups.

3. Review some literature about qualitative research to formulate the investigation

questions.

4. Conceptualize the research study through providing the main definitions about
the clue words or descriptions.

I. Knowledge Registration of the Qualitative and Quantitative Research

K-W-L Chart
Assess what you know about the Characteristics of Quantitative and Qualitative
research before and after you have engaged with it. Fill the columns below with what
you Know about the topic, what you Want to know, and what you’ve Learned. Fill in the
last column once exercise number II is done.

What do you Know about
the Quantitative and
Qualitative Method?
4 points at least
What do you Want to know What did you Learn about
about them? them?
4 points at least 5 points at least
 Quantitative
-Is a method of
investigation.
-In this type of
investigation numbers are
important.
-Their results may be
measurable with balances,
rulers and things related to
quantities.
- Structured Data
Qualitative
-Subjective conclusions.
-Interviews, focus groups
-Deals with description
-Descriptive relating to
words and language.
-Which one is easier to -Qualitative research is
apply during an more a discussion or
investigation. debate.
-Both can be used at the -There is a clue for the
same time or at least a qualitative research
project can be half and method and is about to find
half. detailed answers.
-More ways of application -One big difference from
and methods between the each other is the analytical
two research forms. process of how are
developed during the
investigation.
-How can we identify when
it is more appropriate to
use one of them, it means -Quantitative research is
in which type of often used in industries.
circumstances they can
work better.
-Mathematical facts are
related to quantitative
research method.

Source:
https://www.facinghistory.org/sites/default/files/KWL_Chart_handout_v.final_.pdf
II. Characteristics and/or features of the Quantitative and Qualitative Research

See the videos containing key information about the characteristics of Qualitative
and Quantitative research.
 
 The videos provide other information related to the two methods, register
in the table below are those features that are different in each video, but no other
information, except for the important aspects related to the features.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69qP8kFJp_k&t=10s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rUVYWfZOb8&t=6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ousHtSQAqjA&t=11s

Quantitative Features Qualitative Features

-The purpose of conducting these -For discussion and debates

surveys is to draw reliable analytical
conclusions to understand a particular
audience.
-Quantitative research is a popular
choice of research, especially in
industries.
-Quantitative research is used to get
answers in numerical form.
-The output of quantitative research is
usually in the form of graphs,
statistical data, tables, and
percentages, etc
-The purpose of using quantitative
research is to make the use of
mathematical and statistical models to
establish an understanding of the
problem of research.
-The results of quantitative research
can be generalized because it is
-Relevance implies that the
information should have predictive and
confirmatory value.
-Qualitative research methods are used
to obtain detailed answers to the
questions.
-Participants of the research are asked
open-ended questions rather than
asking close-ended questions through
surveys and questionnaires.
-Qualitative research methods explain
how and why something happens and
do not answer what and how much
happens.
-In qualitative research, a researcher
gives more importance to the concepts,
definitions, meanings, and detailed
description of things and give less
stress to figures and numbers.
 conducted on a large population size

Note: Don’t forget to fill in the last column of the K-W-L chart after completing the
information in this table.

III. Checking the literature before doing exercise IV

https://www.rebeccawestburns.com/my-blog-3/notes/maxwell-qualitative-
research-design-goals

Read the content of this pdf, paying closer attention to the personal, practical and
intellectual goals.

It is for you to learn what is the goal of your own study.

IV. Brainstorming the topics of investigation

https://studycorgi.com/blog/research-topics-for-college-students/
In that website, there is a list of topics of investigation, they are only suggestions
to select yours. Check on the categories and the topics, which serve as a guide
for writing your own topic. If you think that they are feasible for your group to
investigate, then have them in this space as it is instructed below.

1. Write a checklist of five topics of investigation your group could undertake this
period. They can be written down grounded on the purpose of the research and
consequently its outcome.

1. The dropout of university students in the area of English. Selected topic.

2. Aspects of multicultural educational practices.
3. The importance of inclusivity in teaching.
4. The importance of sex education at schools.
5. Peculiarities of teacher’s education in America.

6. In this section, choose the topic that most interests the group to conduct a
qualitative or mixed study.
A/ The dropout of university students in the area of English.
V. Starting to conceptualizing the topic
Look for the concept of the selected topic. Type it in the search window the word
or words it contains, if it does not appear with all the words, then type in word by
word. Write the website from where you get the concept or concepts.

The dropout of university students in the English Career area from SPS
campus after the pandemic of covid-19.

“Students leave college for all sorts of reasons. In some cases, it is a personal
choice, and in others, they simply feel they have no other option due to their
circumstances.
Reasons for dropping out of college:
Financial Reasons
Other Common Reasons”
uopeople. (2022). What can be done to prevent students from dropping out of
college? University of the People 2022. https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/prevent-
students-from-dropping-out-of-college/

VI. Writing up the “research question (s)”

1. Before starting to write the “research question or questions” read one by

word, line by line, from 35 up to page 45 before writing the research
question(s).
https://us.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-assets/
86947_book_item_86947.pdf

2. Write up the master research question or questions, making sure that it is

aligned with the topic selected for your investigation and the explanation
about it in the content of the link above.

https://www.editage.com/all-about-publication/research/impressive-Verbs-
to-use-in-your-Research-Paper.html

This list of verbs and their explanation will be useful to write up the
question or questions.

1-How has the economic crisis affected university students after the
pandemic of covid-19?
 2-What would be the best way to deal with college dropouts?

3-Why does student enthusiasm for school drop so drastically after

the pandemic of covid-19?

4-Which other reasons could be affecting the dropout of university

students?

VII. Writing a brief justification

Write a “rationale” expressing the main reason to undertake the study, (not
because it is required as an assignment). Explain why the study would be
important for you and other people.

The purpose of this study is to analyze or identify the several reasons

why students from english career of UPNFM-CURSPS drop out their
studies after the pandemic of covid-19, having in mind the hard times
our country passed through this sickness even worst our country is
positioned in one the lowest rate of education levels. in order to that
finding valuable reasons and distinguishing why several students
decided to quit or drop out from university, besides from that it's a good
opportunity to investigate about what other problems could be affecting
to the population of students for having a better view of this issues, the
community of students is specifically delimited to only the english
career and counting from the two past years since 2020.
As humans we need to develop a lot of skills through life, some of them
must be mandatory such as the studies of a career. That's why we want
to focus on this research. Also it could be helpful to discover what other
possibilities could exist to these previous students who they already
dropped out of their studies, what other solutions could they afford in
order to fix their problem or their main reason for why they decided to
quit their professional careers.

VIII. Reviewing the literature

Search information about the topic you selected to investigate in books, articles,
conferences, videos, etc., and investigations that have been done about it. Copy and
paste the websites in this section, writing a synopsis or brief description about them.
Have five or more websites and other sources. Include at least one video.
Synopsis - The dropout of university students
It is a global phenomenon, but nevertheless, at the Universidad Pedagógica
Nacional Francisco Morazan, it is a phenomenon that before the pandemic occurred
due to different factors, after the pandemic, it has been chaos. In first world
countries, giant world powers, have been affected because of this situation, students
have withdrawn because of what the pandemic has caused. COVID19 has taken
away many students because of the attendance they had during the classes they
received. But, when they returned vaccinated, this was not a positive impact, since in
the English course, the pandemic caused a panic that involved a lot of students to
withdraw, they did not resist, they did not advance and had to leave. That is why it
has caught our attention to see a large number of English students withdrawing from
the university.

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_JWs_Wn6BQ
Article
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/students-are-dropping-out-of-college-
because-of-coronavirus.html
Article
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/10/college-students-dropout-
covid-pandemic
Investigation
https://advance.sagepub.com/articles/preprint/
Factors_Affecting_Students_Dropout_Rate_During_COVID-19/16728967
Investigation
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/21582440221097378