EDUC 321 - ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING Chapter 1: Quantitative and Qualitative Research
23 Nov 2022
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Research plays a very important role in making sense of the world around us and developing knowledge basis and systems. As such, understanding research methods and paradigms is very important to scholars and researchers if they are to come up with credible and comprehensive research. This paper discusses the differences between qualitative and quantitative research methods and also looks at how the two methods can be similar and how they can be used together. Qualitative research is a scientific and systematic method used to gather data that it not quantifiable (yin 2018). This type of research, as marshall (2016)) explains, refers to the meanings, concepts definitions, characteristics, metaphors, symbols, and description of things . Marshall (2016) emphasizes that qualitative research is primarily exploratory research and is used to obtain information such as intentions and motives that helps explain an occurrence.
