Qualitative and quantitative methodology

The role of the researcher in quantitative research is:

• Subjective. Researcher and reality are a single entity.

• Objective. He/she takes distance from the object of study.

• Exploratory. Interpretative.

• Deductive. It confirms or rejects the hypothesis.

What is the strategy of qualitative research?

• Unstructured and structured.

• Neutral.

• Structured.

• Inductive.

It is true that "the objective of qualitative research is to let a theory emerge from the data" and in "quantitative research is to verify the theory expressed in the data."

• Both are true.

• Only qualitative research is true.

• Only quantitative research is true.

• Neither is true.

Which collection technique is correct?

• In qualitative research it is numerical.

• In quantitative research it is sampling.

• Qualitative research is qualitative and quantitative research is representative.

• None of the above.

What is a characteristic of the quantitative approach?

• It reflects the need to measure and estimate the magnitudes of the phenomena or research problems.

• The researcher poses a delimited and concrete study problem about the phenomenon.

• Data collection is based on measurement.

• All of the above.

Which is not a characteristic of the qualitative approach?

• It is based on more open approaches that gradually become more focused.

• It is based on statistics.

• Meanings are extracted from the data.

• It is basically conducted in natural environments

The process of the qualitative approach can be:

• Inductive.

• Sequential.

• Probative.

• Analyzes objective reality.

Both approaches employ careful, methodical and empirical processes in their effort to generate knowledge. These methods use five similar and interrelated strategies (Grinnell,

1997)

What is one strategy that both methods use?

• They carry out observation and evaluation of phenomena.

• They establish assumptions or ideas as a consequence of the observation and evaluation carried out.

• They demonstrate the degree to which the assumptions or ideas have merit.

• All of the above

The qualitative approach:

• Uses data collection and analysis to refine research questions to reveal new questions in the process of interpretation.

• Uses data collection to test hypotheses based on numerical measurement and statistical analysis.

• Interpreted in light of initial predictions (hypotheses) and previous studies (theory).

• The measurements obtained are analyzed using statistical methods, and a series of conclusions are drawn regarding the hypothesis or hypotheses.

One of the fundamental processes of the general research process is data analysis, which in the quantitative approach is characterized by:

• Data generate categories.

• Description, analysis and development of themes.

• Statistical analysis.

• Deep meaning of the results.