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The Importance of Quantitative Research Across Fields and The Nature of Variables

1) Quantitative research is important across many fields including politics, business, environment, and education. It is used to systematically collect and analyze information to evaluate policies, understand customer preferences, track development goals, and study the impact of educational programs. 2) There are different types of variables including numeric, categorical, experimental, and non-experimental variables. Numeric variables measure quantity while categorical variables describe qualities. Experimental variables are those being manipulated in an experiment while non-experimental variables are studied in non-experimental research. 3) Variables can also be classified as univariate, bivariate, or polyvariate depending on whether one, two, or more than two variables are being studied.

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The Importance of Quantitative Research Across Fields and The Nature of Variables

1) Quantitative research is important across many fields including politics, business, environment, and education. It is used to systematically collect and analyze information to evaluate policies, understand customer preferences, track development goals, and study the impact of educational programs. 2) There are different types of variables including numeric, categorical, experimental, and non-experimental variables. Numeric variables measure quantity while categorical variables describe qualities. Experimental variables are those being manipulated in an experiment while non-experimental variables are studied in non-experimental research. 3) Variables can also be classified as univariate, bivariate, or polyvariate depending on whether one, two, or more than two variables are being studied.

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The Importance of Quantitative Research

Across Fields and The Nature of Variables


Chapter 1 Nature of Inquiry and Research

Prepared by Ms. Erika Zandra D. Larot


Learning Competency
 illustrates the importance of
quantitative research across fields
 differentiates kinds of variables and
their uses
Performance Standard
Decide on suitable quantitative
research in different areas of interest
Importance of Quantitative
Research
 Politics, Governance, and Public
Administration
 Business, Management, and Economics
 Environment and Development Studies
 Education, Psychology, and Sociology
Politics, Governance, and Public
Administration
Government organizations use quantitative
research to systematically collect and analyze
information to better perform their mandates.
 Quantitative methods are also used to
systematically evaluate the effectiveness and
impacts of the policies and programs implemented
by the government.
Business, Management and Economics
 Quantitative research is used to collect and
analyze information on customer preference and
product performance as well as overall business
performance.
 Banks and investment companies rely on analysis
and predictions in making business decisions.
Environment and Developmental
Studies
 The UN, member countries, and concerned
development organizations become aware of their
performance and how close or far they are in
achieving their development goals by conducting
surveys, censuses, and other data-gathering
services.
Education, Psychology, and Sociology
 study on the impact of financial planning
curriculum on high school students
 Quantitative methods are also used in
psychology especially in the subfield of
psychometrics.
Variable
 is any factor or property that researcher measures,
controls, and/or manipulates
 it is also a logical set of attributes, characteristics,
numbers, or quantities that can be measured or
counted
Classifications of Variables
1. Numeric variables
2. Categorical variables
3. Experimental variables
4. Non-experimental variables
5. Variables according to the number being studied
Numeric Variables
 with values that describe a measurable numerical
quantity and answer the questions “how many” or “how
much”
a. Continuous variables (time, age, temperature, height,
and weight)
b. Discrete variables (number of registered cars, number
of business locations, number of children in the
family, population of students, and total number of
faculty members)
Categorical Variables
 with values that describe a quality or characteristic of a data
unit like “what type” or “which category”
a. Ordinal variables (A,B,C; X,L,M,S; strongly agree, agree,
disagree, strongly disagree)
b. Nominal variables (business types, eye colors, kinds of
religions, various languages, and types of learners)
c. Dichotomous variables (gender, answer, veracity)
d. Polychotomous variables (educational attainment and level
of performance)
Experimental Variables
a. Independent variables (manipulated or
explanatory variable)
b. Dependent variables (response or predicted
variable)
c. Extraneous variables (mediating or intervening
variables)
Non-experimental Variables
a. Predictor variables (changes the other
variable/s in a non-experimental study)
b. Criterion variables (usually influenced
by the predictor variables)
Variables according to the number
being studied
a. Univariate study (only one variable is being
studied)
b. Bivariate study (two variables are being
studied)
c. Polyvariate study (more than two variables are
being studied)
Prepared by Ms. Erika Zandra D. Larot
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