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III - Measurement and Types of Data in Quantitative Research

The document outlines a structured approach to quantitative research, detailing the importance of data collection, measurement, and analysis. It covers various chapters on understanding data types, data collection methods, and reporting research findings, emphasizing the significance of measurement validity and reliability. Additionally, it discusses social mobility concepts and the processes of conceptualization and operationalization in research.

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III - Measurement and Types of Data in Quantitative Research

The document outlines a structured approach to quantitative research, detailing the importance of data collection, measurement, and analysis. It covers various chapters on understanding data types, data collection methods, and reporting research findings, emphasizing the significance of measurement validity and reliability. Additionally, it discusses social mobility concepts and the processes of conceptualization and operationalization in research.

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INQUIRIES,

INVESTIGATION
S, AND
IMMERSION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Understanding Data and Ways to Systematically
Collect Data
Lesson 1: Measurement and Types of Data in Quantitative
Research
Lesson 2: Sampling and Sampling Probability
Lesson 3: Types of Quantitative Data Collection
Lesson 4: Use of Statistical Analysis in Quantitative
Research
Chapter 2: Finding Answers through Data Collection
Lesson 1: Data Collection Tools and Instruments
Lesson 2: Data Processing, Organization, and Presentation
Lesson 3: Basic Statistical Techniques in Data Analysis
Chapter 3: Reporting and Sharing Research Findings
Lesson 1: Making and Formulating Conclusions and
Recommendations
Lesson 2: Listing References
Lesson 3: The Process and Parts of Report Writing
Lesson 4: Presenting and Disseminating Research Findings
Chapter 1:
Understanding
Data and Ways to
Systematically
Collect Data
Performance Task:
Design a Plan for Procedures to be Used
in a Survey Research
Focusing on the research problem that you
developed in the previous chapters, design or
formulate a plan for procedures to answer your
research questions using a survey study. Make
sure to indicate a description of each of the
components of the survey method plan as
suggested by Creswell (1994).
Lesson 1:
Measurement
and Types of
Data in
Quantitative
Research
Learning Competencies:
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
• Explain the value of measurement in quantitative research.
• Define conceptualization and operationalization.
• Differentiate measurement validity and reliability.
• Identify the key differences of the four levels of measurement: nominal,
ordinal, interval, and ratio.
• Explain the importance of these differences in quantitative data analysis.
• Create indicators of nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio variables.
• Classify data on the basis of level of measurement.
• Construct rating scales as measures of variables.
Quantitative Research
•
Design
Research design is defined as the rational and coherent
overall strategy that the researcher uses to incorporate all
the vital components of the research study. Hence, in order to
find meaning in the overall process of doing your research
study, a step-by-step process will be helpful to you.
• In quantitative research, you are going to have a great deal
of abstraction and numerical analysis. According to Fraenkel
and Wallen (2007, p 15), the research designs in quantitative
research are mostly pre-established. Hence having an
appropriate research design in quantitative research, the
researcher will have a clearer comprehension of what he is
trying to analyze and interpret.
Why Measure?
The nature and purpose of quantitative research makes
measurement important to quantitative researchers. But how do
quantitative researchers examine concepts? First, let us define
concepts.

• Bulmer (1984, p. 43), “concepts are categories for the


organization of ideas and observations.” (Bryman 2008, p.
143), a concept “represents a label that we give to elements
of the social world that seem to have common features and
that strike us as significant."
Task Involved in the
Process of Measurement

1. The process of conceptualization


2. The process of operationalization

Conceptualization is “the process through


which we specify what we mean when we
use particular terms (concepts) in
research” (Babbie, 2010, p.126)
Opening Doors, Breaking
Barriers: A Strategy for Social
Mobility
Social mobility is defined in the form of dichotomies. The first is
between intergenerational social mobility and intragenerational
social mobility; the second is between relative social mobility and
absolute social mobility.
● Intergenerational social mobility is the extent to which people's
success in life is determined by who their parents are.
● Intragenerational social mobility is the extent to which
individuals improve their position during their working lives,
irrespective of where they started off.
● Relative social mobility refers to the comparative chances of
people with different backgrounds ending up in certain social
or income groups.
● Absolute social mobility refers to the extent to which people
are able to do better than their parents.
Task Involved in the
Process of Measurement
1. The process of conceptualization
2. The process of operationalization

Conceptualization is “the process through which we specify


what we mean when we use particular terms (concepts) in
research” (Babbie, 2010, p.126)

Operationalization includes the creation or formulation of an


indicator or a set of indicators or terms that will stand for and
measure the concept or any of the dimensions or aspects of
the concept, that is, the variable or variables. The indicator or
the set of indicators is often referred to in research as an
operational definition of the concept (Bryman, 2008).

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