Practical Research 2

Lesson 2: Quantitative Research

Intended Learning Outcomes

1. Speculate about quantitative research;

2. Define quantitative research accurately;
3. Compare and contrast qualitative and quantitative research
based on some criteria or standards;
4. Draw distinctions between a qualitative questions from a
quantitative questions;
5. Ask questions in a quantitative research.
 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: a movement of part of the body, especially a
hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning.
 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.

2. In looks, Malaysians are analogous to

Filipinos, but in language, they are not.

Meaning: comparable in certain respects, typically in

a way which makes clearer the nature of the things
compared.
 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.

3. Please use precise words to explain your

point for the listeners’ quick understanding
of your ideas.
Meaning: marked by exactness and accuracy of
expression or detail.
 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.

4. The plastic bag becomes inflated with

much air blown into it; deflated, with air
released from such container.
Meaning: distended through being filled with air or
gas.
 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.

5. A person experiences moral instability if he

does not pattern his life after Jesus Christ,
the way, the truth, and the life.
Meaning: lack of stability; the state of being unstable.
 Activity 1: Vocabulary Practice

Directions: Which between these two sets of statements is easier or quicker to

understand? Justify your point.

Set A -
Ninety five percent (95%) of the examinees passed the
licensure exams.

Set B -
A big number of examinees passed the licensure exams.
 Activity 1: Vocabulary Practice

Directions: Which between these two sets of statements is easier or quicker to

understand? Justify your point.

Set A -
Twenty pages of the book contain grammatically
incorrect sentences.

Set B -
Several pages of the book contain grammatically incorrect
sentences.
 Definition of Quantitative Research

• Expressions like numerical forms, objective thinking, statistical

methods, and measurement signal the existence of quantitative
research.

• 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.

• Expressing meaning through numerals or a set of symbols indicates

specificity, particularity, or exactness of something.
 Definition of Quantitative Research

• Quantitative Research makes you focus your mind on specific things by

means of statistics that involve collection and study of numerical data.

• Quantitative 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.
 Definition of Quantitative Research

• 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.

• Answers to 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.

• 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.
 Characteristics

• Characterized by objectiveness, in which only the real or factual, not

the emotional or cognitive existence of the object matters greatly.

• Quantitative research is analogous to scientific or experimental

thinking.

• You just do not identify problems but theorize, hypothesize, analyze,

infer, and create as well.
Classification

Quantitative Research

Experimental Non-Experimental

True Quasi-Experimental
Experimental
Historical Survey
Matched Comparative
Pre- Group
Experimental
Time Series Correlational Observational

Single Subject Counterbalanced

Quasi-Experimental Comparative Descriptive
 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 useful in obtaining an objective understanding of people, things,

places, and events.

• 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.
 Importance

• Requiring the use of reliable measurement instrument or statistical

methods, a quantitative study enables people to study their
surroundings as objective as they can.

• It is 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.
 Quantitative vs. Qualitative Research
Standards
Mental survey of reality
Cause-effect relationships
Researcher’s involvement with
the object or subject of the study
Expression of data, data analysis
and findings
Research plan
Behavior toward research
aspects/conditions
Qualitative
Results from social interactions
Explained by people’s objective
desires
Subjective; sometimes personally
engaged
Verbal languages (words, visuals,
objects)
Takes place as the research proceeds
gradually
Desires to preserve the natural
setting of research features
Quantitative
Exists in the physical world
Revealed by automatic descriptions
of circumstances or conditions
Objective; least involvement by the
researcher
Numerals, statistics
Plans all research aspects before
collecting data
Control or manipulation of research
conditions by the researcher
 Quantitative vs. Qualitative Research
Standards Qualitative
Obtaining knowledge Multiple methods
Purpose Makes social intentions undesirable
Data-analysis technique Thematic codal ways, competence-
based
Style of expression Personal, lacks formality
Sampling technique More inclined to purposive sampling
or use of chosen samples based on
some criteria
Quantitative
Scientific method
Evaluates objectives and examines
cause-effect relationships
Mathematically based methods
Impersonal, scientific, or systematic
Random sampling as the most
preferred
 Activity 1: Circle the letter of the correct
word to complete the sentence.

1. You tend to inflate something in a qualitative

research because of your _________.
a. Objective views c. personal traits
b. Teacher’s influence d. mathematical skills

c. personal traits
 Activity 1: Circle the letter of the correct
word to complete the sentence.

2. This line, “The truth is out there.” is true for _____.

a. qualitative research c. all research design
b. quantitative research d. any research type

b. quantitative research
 Activity 1: Circle the letter of the correct
word to complete the sentence.

3. People inclined to doing a quantitative research

wants to discover truth in ________.
a. an exact manner c. an un indirect way
b. a careful way d. a personal way

a. an exact manner
 Activity 1: Circle the letter of the correct
word to complete the sentence.

4. Some think of quantitative research as complex

because of its use of _____.
a. hypotheses c. factual data
b. Numerical data d. theories
b. Numerical data
 Activity 1: Circle the letter of the correct
word to complete the sentence.

5. A quantitative research presents research findings in

this manner:
a. Many prefer to study with textbooks.
b. Students find textbooks indispensable or necessary.
c. Perhaps, 30% consider textbook unnecessary in their
studies.
d. Out of 100 college students, 90 find textbooks beneficial
to their studies.
Out of 100 college students, 90 find textbooks beneficial to their studies.
 Activity 2: Formulate a quantitative research
questions about each of the following topics.

1. Gender in Grade 12 class(male and female)

2. School population of RNHS (teacher and student)
3. Communication media (TV, newspaper, cellphones)
4. Noontime TV program (Showtime and Eat Bulaga)
5. Roxas NHS Senior High School Track (TVL and GAS)
Thank you for listening.
I hope your learn something.
Reference:
 Practical Research 2
Esther L. Baraceros (2016)
Rex Book Store, Inc.
 Research as Inquiry
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