Lesson 01

INQUIRIES,INV
ESTIGATION
AND
IMMERSION!
WITH MRS.STEPHANIE
M.DAGODOG
 IMPORTANCE
OF
QUANTITATIVE
RESEARCH
ACROSS
FIELDS
Importance of Quantitative ?Research
across Fields
• People do research to find solutions, even tentative ones, to
problems, in order to improve or enhance ways of doing
things, to disprove or provide hypothesis, or simple to find
answers to questions or solutions to problems in daily life.
 Importance of Quantitative ?
Research across Fields
• Research findings can affect people’s lives, ways
of doing things, laws, rules and regulations, as
well as policies, among others.
Importance of Quantitative Research
across Fields
• Widely, quantitative research is often used because
of its emphasis on proof rather than discovery.
Importance of Quantitative Research
across Fields
• The objective of quantitative research is to
develop and employ mathematical models,
theories and/or hypotheses pertaining to
phenomena.
 Importance of
Quantitative ?Research
across Fields
• In the natural and social sciences, quantitative
research is the systematic, empirical investigation of
observable phenomena via statistical, mathematical
or computational techniques.
 Quantitative Research &
Accounting, Business and
Management (ABM)
Researches can help design
Researches can help design a
a new product or service,
new product or service,
figuring out what is needed
figuring out what is needed
and ensure the development
and ensure the development
of product is highly targeted
of product is highly targeted
towards demands. towards demands.
Quantitative Research &
Accounting, Business and
Management
Conducting researches
(ABM)
t may also help a small
can also help a business business decide if a
determine whether now procedure or strategy
is the proper time to should be change to
open another branch or meet the requirements
whether it needs to apply
of the customer base.
for a new loan.
 The primary function of research in ABM is
to correctly determine its customers and their
preferences, establish the enterprise in the
most feasible location, deliver quality good
and services, analyze what the competitors
Research is important are doing and find ways on how to
to any organization to continuously satisfy the growing and varied
remain in the market. needs of the clients.
 Quantitative Research &
Anthropology

Anthropology is a research method of combining

qualitative and quantitative research data. It is
concerned with exploring connections simultaneously,
amidst cultural differences, alternatives and identity.
 Quantitative Research &
Anthropology

In the contemporary academic, socio-cultural and

political climate these concepts have immense
symbolic overtones.
Quantitative Research &
Anthropology
Quantitative research is use on
Anthropology in many aspects. Like, true
experiments may use in studying people
provided that you follow certain steps
(Bernard, 2004). This is to look into the
Effects of an intervention in ethnic
behavior of a group.
 Quantitative Research &
• You need at least two
groups, called the
treatment group and the
control group. One group
gets the intervention and
the other group don’t.
Anthropology
2. Next, individuals may be
randomly assigned, either to
the intervention group or the
control group to ensure that
the groups are equivalent.
3. Then, the groups
are measured on one
or more dependent
variables; this is
called pre-test.
Quantitative Research &
Anthropology
They reasoned that people who go through tough
initiation rites put a lot of personal investments into
getting to the group. Later, if people see evidence
that the group is not what they thought it would be,
they are reluctant to admit the fact because of the
investments.
 Quantitative Research &
Communication
Researchers are often interested in how an
understanding of a particular communication
phenomenon might generalize to a larger population.
 Quantitative Research &
Communication

For example, researchers can advance questions like

“What effects do punitive behavioral control
statements have on classroom?, What
communicative behaviors are used to respond to co-
workers displaying emotional stress? (Allen,
Titsworth, Hunt, 2009)
 Quantitative Research &
Sports Medicine

Quantitative research is used to analyze how

sports may be used as an alternative way of
medicating an illness.
Quantitative An example is the research done by

Research & University of Eastern Finland which

investigated the relationship between
Sports mushrooming of fat food chains and

Medicine obesity, as well as the intervention

needed to prevent children’s obesity
from reaching serious proportions.
Quantitative The research focused on the children’s
physical activity and physical
Research & inactivity and the concomitant impact

Sports on the children’s amount of adipose

tissue (fat mass) and the endurance
Medicine fitness, The study is used to analyze
certain the effect of physical activity in
weight control.
 Quantitative Research &
Medical Education

Quantitative research in medical education tend to be

predominantly observational research based on surveys
or correlational studies.
• The designs test interventions like curriculum,
teaching-learning process or assessment with an
experimental group
Quantitative Relationship Questions in today’s quantitative trend

Research tend to explore how one behavior exhibited by people

is related to other types of behavior.
&Behavioral • Examples are verbally aggressive behaviors

Sciences related to physical aggression – that is, when a

person has a level of verbally aggressive
behavior, does he or she tend to be physically
aggressive? Are certain supervisor
communication skills related to the emotional
experiences of employees?
Quantitative
Questions of difference explore how patterns
Research & of behavior or perceptions might differ from
Behavioral one group or type of a person to another: Do
Sciences people with disabilities experience emotional
labor differently from those without
disabilities? Do women perceive
talkativeness (or lack of it) differently form
men? Do communication styles differ from
one culture to the next? (Alle, Titsworth,
Hunt, 2009).
 Quantitative Research
&Education
Quasi Experiments are most often used in evaluating social problems.
• Suppose a researcher has invented a technique for improving reading
comprehension among third graders. She/he selects two third grade
classes in a school district. One of them gets the intervention and the
other doesn’t. Students are measured before and after the intervention
to see whether their reading scores improve.
 Quantitative Research
Mertens (2005) says&Psychology
that the dominant paradigms that guided early
psychological research were positivism and its successor, post
positivism.
• Positivism is based on rationalistic, empiricist philosophy that
originated with Aristotle, Francis Bacon, John Locke, August
Comte and Immanuel Kant, the underlying assumptions of
positivism include the belief that the social world can be studied in
the same way as the natural world
 Quantitative Research &
Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM)
Medical practitioners, for example, conduct researchers
to obtain significant information about diseases trends
and risk factors, results of various health interventions,
patterns of care and health care cost and use. The
different approaches to research provide complimentary
researches.
 Quantitative Research &
Science, Technology,
Engineering
• Researchers help in determining the effectiveness and even
side effect of drugs and therapies in different populations and
various institutions.
• It is also necessary in evaluating experiences in clinical
practice in order to develop mechanisms for best practices and
to ensure high quality patient care.
Researchers in these fields ultimately aim for man’s longevity
 Quantitative
Research &
Science,
Technology,
As for engineers, architects and other builders,
research helps inEngineering
providing designs which are which
are creativity beautiful and the same time give more
convenience and efficiency as they utilize modern
technology to adapt to the ever changing society.
New materials and procedures may be developed so
as to further strengthen the structural materials that
can withstand various calamities and disasters.
Thank
You
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