Qualitative Research

• Quantitative Research: uses numerical data that can be analyzed statistically or mathematically.
• Variable: refers to characteristics or attributes that can be measures
• Research Problems: describes the issue that is in need of study
• Background of the study: to the context, circumstances, and history that led to the research problem
• Hypothesis: states your predictions about what your research will find.
• Conceptual Framework: a representation of the relationship you expect to see between your variable
• Review of related literature: composition of facts, studies, principles, which are related to your research topic
• Exploratory: informal or unstructured way of investigating available sources
• Descriptive: describing the situation under the study, a theory-based method.
• Correlational: a relationship between two variables
• Survey: used in securing opinions and trends through the use of questionnaires and interviews
• Evaluative: a variety of respondents from various fields to aid in the decision making
• Formative evaluation: the quality of implementation
• Summative evaluation: done after the implementation
• Ex Post Facto: a method in which groups with qualities that already exist are compared on dependent variable
• Quasi- experimental research design: used where random assigment is either irrelevant or required
• Experimental Research Design: dealing with the object or subject of a research in an exact manner and looking into the extent of the effect or influence of the treatment on the subject.
• Population: the totality of objects
• Sample: the specific group that you will collect data from which also refers as the subset in a population