Strengths and Weaknesses of

Qualitative Research
1. What are some of the issues around you, i.e.,
in the family, in the community, in the
classroom, or in the society that draws your
interest?
2. What is the current issue about the research
topic that you have identified? .
Brainstorm on the issues that surround their field of
specialization.
• The output of this activity should be presented
using PowerPoint presentation or any visual
material for critiquing of the teacher.
• The output should include:
• 1. Research Title
• 2. Reasons for Conducting the Research
• 3. Research Questions
Strengths of Qualitative Research
1. Issues can be examined in detail and in depth.
2. Interviews are not restricted to specific
questions and can be guided/redirected by the
researcher in real time.
3. The research framework and direction can be
quickly revised as new information emerges.
4. The obtained data based on human
experience is powerful and sometimes more
compelling than quantitative data.
5. Subtleties and complexities about the
research subjects and/or topic are discovered
that are often missed by more positivistic
inquiries.
6. Data usually are collected from a few cases or
individuals so findings cannot be generalized to
a larger population. Findings can however be
transferable to another setting.
 Limitations of Qualitative Research
1. RESEARCH quality is heavily dependent on the
individual skills of the researcher and ore easily
influenced by the researcher's personal biases and
characteristics.
2. Rigor is more difficult to maintain, assess, and
demonstrate.
3. The volume of data makes analysis and
interpretation time consuming.
4. It is sometimes not as well understood and
accepted as quantitative research within the
scientific community
5. The researcher's presence during data
gathering, which is often unavoidable in
qualitative research, can affect the subjects'
responses.
6. Issues of anonymity and confidentiality can
bring/result to problems when presenting
findings
7. Findings can be more difficult and time
consuming to characterize in a visual way.