Practical Research 2 Module 2
Practical Research 2 Module 2
Practical Research 2 Module 2
G12
Quarter 1 – Module 2:
Quantitative Research
Intended Learning Outcomes
After this lesson, you should be able to:
1. Familiarize yourselves with vocabulary terms to clarify things about quantitative research
2. Communicate with others using the newly learned vocabulary terms;
3. Speculate about quantitative research;
4. Define quantitative research accurately;
5. Compare and contrast qualitative and quantitative research based on some criteria or
standards.
6. Draw distinctions between a qualitative question from a quantitative question;
7. Ask questions any quantitative research seeks to answer;
8. Analyze the power of print media or electronic devices to trigger off the students
quantitative reasoning
What I know
Activity 1: Vocabulary Improvement
Directions: To acquire substantial knowledge on some topics in this lesson, activate your
schemata about the underlined word in each sentence. Get clues from its use in the
sentence.
1. Demonstrate through a hand gesture the magnitude of the screen that you think is enough
to block the window.
Meaning: ______________________________________________________________
2. In looks, Malaysians are analogous to Filipinos, but in language, they are not.
Meaning: ______________________________________________________________
3. Please use precise words to explain your point for the listener’s quick understanding of
your ideas.
Meaning:
_____________________________________________________________________
4. The plastic bag becomes inflated with much air blown into it, deflated with air released
from such container.
Meaning:
_____________________________________________________________________
5. A person experiences moral instability if he does not patter his life after Jesus Christ, the
way, the truth and the life.
Meaning:
_____________________________________________________________________
Lesson
2
Quantitative Research
What’s New?
Expressions like numerical for forms, objective thinking, statistical methods, and
measurement signal the existence of quantitative research. One word that reflects the true nature
of this type of research is numerical. This term, numerical, is a descriptive word pertaining to or
denoting a number or symbol to express how many, how much, or what rank things are or have
in this world. Expressing meaning through numerals or a set of symbols indicates specificity,
particularity or exactness, or exactness of something.
Quantitative research makes you focus your mind on specific things by means of statistics
that involve collection of and study of numerical data. Thus, to give the basic meaning of
quantitative research is to say that research is a way of making any phenomenon or any sensory
experience clearer or more meaningful by gathering and examining facts and information about
such person, thing, place or event appealing to your senses. You use mathematical operations of
addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication to study and express relationships between
quantities or magnitudes shown by numbers or symbols. Involving measurements and amounts,
quantitative research seeks to find answers to questions starting with how many, how much, how
long, to what extent, and the like. Answer these questions come in numerals, percentages, and
fractions, among others.
Characteristics
Since quantitative research uses numbers and figures to denote a particular thing, this
kind of research requires you to focus your full attention on the object of your study. Doing this,
you tend to exclude your own thoughts and feelings about the subject or object. This is why
quantitative research is described as objective research in contrast to qualitative research that is
subjective. Characterized by objectiveness, in which only the real or factual, not the emotional or
cognitive existence of the object matters gently to the artist, quantitative research is analogous to
scientific or experimental thinking. In this case, you just do not identify problems but theorize,
hypothesize, analyze, infer and create as well. Quantitative research usually happens in hard
sciences like physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine; qualitative research, in soft sciences
such as humanities, social sciences, education and psychology, among others.
Classification
Quantitative research is of two kinds: experimental and non-experimental. Each of these
has sub-types. Falling under experimental are these specific types: true experimental, quasi-
experimental, single subject and pre-experimental. Quasi-experimental comes in several types
such as: matched comparative group, time series and counter-balanced quasi-experimental. Non-
experimental research, on the other hand, has these sub-types: survey, historical, observational,
correlational, descriptive and comparative research.
Importance
The importance of quantitative research lies greatly in the production of results that
should reflect precise measurement and an in-depth analysis of data. It is also useful in obtaining
an objective understanding of people, things, places, and events in this world; meaning.
Attaching accurate or exact meanings to objects or subjects, rather than inflated meanings
resulting from the researcher’s bias or personal attachment to things related to the research.
Requiring the use of reliable measurement instruments or statistical methods, a quantitative study
enabled people to study their surroundings as objective as they can. This kind of research is
likewise an effective method to obtain information about specified personality traits of a group
member or of the group as a whole as regards the extent of the relationship of their characteristics
and the reason behind the instability of some people’s characteristics. (Muijs 2011;Gray 2012)
Quantitative vs, Qualitative Research
Having obtained much knowledge about qualitative and quantitative research, you are
now able to compare and contrast the two based on some standards or criteria appearing in the
following table.
Let’s check how well do you know about the difference between Qualitative and Quantitative
Research. Write your answers on the space provided.
1. Qualitative Research is different from Quantitative Research .What do you think
is the significance of each?
Activity 2
Directions: Work in pairs for any of the following activity.
1. Formulate a quantitative research question about each of the following topics. Submit
your answer to our Edmodo Class.
a. Gender (male and female)
b. Learning styles (visual, audio, kinesthetic, etc.)
c. Philippine transportation system (MRT, LRT, buses, FX, jeeps, taxi, etc.)
d. Communication media (TV, newspaper, cellphones, email, Facebook, Instagram, etc.)
e. Public order and safety (labor strikes, crime, drug addiction, robbery, etc.)
Concept-Learning Assessment
Write a short essay about things you learned the most and the least through the topics
dealt with in this lesson. Give your essay an interesting title. Submit it to our Edmodo class.
Concept Transformation
Ponder on the headlines of big newspapers in town or on some TV programs, then try
asking quantitative questions about them. Submit your questions in the assignment assigned on
Edmodo.