What type of educational research in which the researcher relies on the views of the participants?

Criteria

Qualitative

Quantitative

• To understand and interpret social interactions

• Test hypotheses
• Look at cause and effect
• Make predictions

• Smaller
• Not randomly selected

• Larger
• Randomly selected

• Study of the whole, not variables.

• Specific variables studied

• Words
• Images
• Objects

• Numbers
• Statistics

• open- ended responses
• interviews
• participant observations
• field notes
• reflections

• precise measurements
• using structured validated data-collection instruments

• patterns
• features
• themes

• statistical relationships

• Subjectivity is expected

• Objectivity is critical

• Researcher & their biases may be known to participants in the study
• Participant characteristics may be known to the researcher

• Researcher and their biases are not known to participants in the study
• Participant characteristics are deliberately hidden from the research (double blind studies)

• Particular or specialized findings that is less generalizable

•  Generalizable findings that can be applied to other populations

• the researcher generates a new hypothesis and theory from the data collected

• the researcher tests the hypothesis and theory with the data

• Dynamic
• Situational
• Social
• Personal

• Regular
• Predictable

• Explore
• Discover
• Construct

• Describe
• Explain
• Predict

• Wide-angle lens
• Examines the breadth and depth of phenomena

• Narrow-angle lens
• Tests a specific hypothesis

•  Study behavior in a natural environment.

• Study behavior under controlled conditions
• Isolate causal effects

• Multiple realities
• Subjective

• Single reality
• Objective

• Narrative report with contextual description
• Direct quotations from research participants

• correlations
• comparisons of means
• statistical significance of findings