Quantitative Research Problem

What is Quantitative Research?

➢ Quantitative research is the process of collecting and analyzing numerical data. It can
be used to find patterns and averages, make predictions, test causal relationships, and
generalize results to wider populations.

➢ Quantitative research is the opposite of qualitative research, which involves

collecting and analyzing non-numerical data (e.g., text, video, or audio).

➢ Quantitative research is widely used in the natural and social sciences: biology,
chemistry, psychology, economics, sociology, marketing, etc.
Nature of Quantitative Research Problem
When you find difficulty in knowing or finding answers or solutions to questions
causing you worries or perplexities is called a PROBLEM. By nature, you or any person
on earth do not want to stay long in a problematic kind of life.
A research problem is something that nurtures in your mind a difficulty or
uncertainty, enough to push you to do an empirical investigation whereby you search for
answers to a problem by collecting and analyzing data or information through which you
can find the right answer or solution.
SOURCES OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH PROBLEM
1.Agencies of the government, or any non-government institutions.
2.Your own experience or genuine interest in something.
3.Previous research findings which you want to validate or consider as studies suffering from
some inconsistencies or discrepancies.
4. Present political social or economic issues in society.
5.Review of related literature.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS VS. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
PROBLEM
❖ Thinking a research problem or a topic to research on is a beginning act in research. Another
initial research act is asking a set of specific questions or identifying subproblems about your
research problem. These specific or subquestions,called RESEARCH QUESTIONS to specify
the scope and the method in collecting and analyzing data, give the right direction in your
research.

❖ In addition , they are questions to give further definition or explanation of the research
problem by stressing the fact that they elicit answer to clarify or solve the research
problem,which is the main problem of the research. Example:
RESEARCH PROBLEM
INTERROGATIVE STATEMENT
What percentage of Manila private universities consider the use of grammar textbooks as the
most effective way to help college students attain communicative competences?

DECLARATIVE STATEMENT
The main objective of this study is to find out the percentage of Manila private universities
considering the use of grammar textbooks as the most effective way to help college students
attain communicative competence
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
INTERROGATIVE STATEMENTS
1. What is an English grammar textbooks?
2. What is communicative competences?
3. What components of the grammar textbook work for communicative-competence development?
4. How many Manila private universities require the use of grammar textbook?

DECLARATIVE STATEMENTS
5. Finding answers to the following specific objectives:
6. To explain the meaning of communicative competence
7. To identify the components of the grammar book that work for communicative-competence
development
8. To determine the number of Manila private universities using grammar textbooks
GUIDELINES IN FORMULATING A QUANTITATIVE
RESEARCH PROBLEM AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. Formulate a research problem that is researchable;meaning, open to empirical investigation.
2. See to it that you state your quantitative research problem clearly, concisely, and possibly if under APA
referencing style, not beyond 12 words.
3. Have your research problem focus on a general understanding of your research topic.
4. Construct a research problem that mirrors the importance of carrying out the research for finding
answers or solution to a problem.
5. Let your quantitative research problem state the variables and their relationships with one another.
6. Construct an introductory statement to present your research problem, which is the main problem of
your research.
7. State your research questions or sub-problems,not in the form of yes-or-no questions, but in
informative questions.
8. Express your research problem and research questions either in an interrogative or declarative
manner,but some research books say that the former is more effective than the latter form.
RESEARCH PROBLEM IN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Quantitative research may either be non-experimental or experimental,and that the latter is

of two types: true experimental or quasi-experimental research. In most aspects of
experimental research, both of these two types have similarities, like both include
selection of subjects,pre-and post-tests, and the use of treatment or control group. Among
These three key aspects of experimental research, randomized selection is its leading
characteristics, so much, that absence of random selection of participants denies its
identity as a true experimental and converts it into a quasi-experimental or semi-
experimental research in which the selection process takes place not by chance but by the
experimenter’s purpose or decision.
FOUR BASIC ELEMENTS OF EXPERIMENTS

1. Subjects or objects (people,place,things,events,etc.)

2. The subject’s condition before the actual experiment
3. The treatment, intervention, or condition applied on the subject.
4. The subject’s condition after the treatment
TYPES OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH QUESTION
➢ Ask questions on the kind, qualifications, and categories of the subjects or participants

1. RELATION QUESTIONS
➢ Are questions about the nature and manner of connection between or among variables.

1. CAUSAL QUESTIONS
➢ Reasons behind the effects of the independent variable on the dependent variable is the
focus of these types of research questions
APPROACHES TO QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH QUESTIONS
DEDUCTIVE APPROACH

➢ Your questions begin from “hunches or predictions” or expectations about the outcome of your research. Ask
questions centering on a theory or concept, discover the accuracy of the theory, ponder on variables to
represent the extent of the application of the theory, and make up your mind on which variable to study
through observation,interview, or experimentation. Explaining the meaning of a variable based on it’s
involvement or rule in the research process, particularly, in the measurement,manipulation, or control of the
concept application is giving such term it’s OPERATIONAL DEFINITION.

INDUCTIVE APPROACH

➢ Deductive approach goes bigger ideas such as theories or concepts to smaller ideas; conversely, inductive
approach starts from smaller and simpler ideas to bigger or more complex ones. Inductively formulated
research questions focus on description of things to prove an idea or a system. Central to this approach are
specific details to prove the validity of a certain theory or concept.