Types of

Quantitative
Research
by:
Leah Mae B. Enero, MS SciEd.
 KWL Chart
What I What I What I
Know Want to Learned
Know
 Descriptive Research
 designed to give “answers
to the questions of who,
what, when, where, and
how which are linked with
a research problem”.
 cont..
 applied only to describe
what exists and to gather
information about the
current status of a certain
phenomenon (Anastas 1999)
 Experimental Research
 authorizes researchers
to “control the situation
which allows them to
answer the question”.
 cont..
 supports the ability to
limit alternative
explanations and to infer
direct causal relationship
in the study.
 Survey Research
 intended to acquire
information from people
concerning the
predominance,
distribution, and
 cont..
 interrelations of
variables within the
identified group.
 cont..
 done to gather evidence
of people’s knowledge,
opinions, attitudes, and
values on various issues
and concerns.
 Correlational Research
 based on pairs of
measures or scores for
members of a single
sample and provide an
indication of the strenghts
 cont..
of the relationship between
two variables that embody
characteristics of or
performance by that group.
 cont..
 means to examine the
field, to contemplate on
the likelihood of
interrelations among a
number of pair variables.
Causal-comparative Research
 about proving the
cause-effect relationship
which descriptive and
correlational studies do
not ascertain.
 More Examples Please!
Give 3 examples for each type of
quantitative research:
1. Descriptive
2. Correlational
3. Causal-comparative
4. Experimental
5. Survey