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Quantitative Research Problem
Quantitative Research Problem
RESEARCH
PROBLEM
What is quantitative
research?
• Requires a measurable data collection,
and interpretation to prove the
assumption that has been developed in a
given study.
• Quantitative research also statical
involves tests, which are used to inefer on
the assumption that have been developed
in the research.
NATURE OF
QUANTITATIVE
RESEARCH
PROBLEM
• When you find difficulty in knowing or finding
answers or solutions to questions causing you
worries or perplexities is called a PROBLEM. By
nature, you or any person on earth do not want to
stay long in a problematic kind of life.
• A research problem is something that nurtures in
your mind a difficulty or uncertainly, enough to
push you to do an empirical investigation whereby
you search for answers to a problem by collecting
and analyzing data or information through which
you can find the right answer or solution.
SOURCES OF
QUANTITATIVE
RESEARCH
PROBLEM
• 1.
Agencies of the government, or any non-
government institutions.
• 2. Your own experience or genuine interest in
something.
• 3. Previous research findings which you want to
validate or consider as studies suffering from some
inconsistencies or discrepancies.
• 4. Present political social or economic issues in
society.
• 5. Review of related literature.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS VS.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
PROBLEM
• Thinking a research problem or a topic to research on is a
beginning act in research. Another initial research act is
asking a set of specific questions or identifying sub-problems
about your research problem. These specific or subquestions,
called RESEARCH QUESTIONS to specify the scope and the
method in collecting and analyzing data, give the right
direction in your research.
• In addition , they are questions to give further definition or
explanation of the research problem by stressing the fact that
they elicit answer to clarify or solve the research problem,
which is the main problem of the research. Example:
RESEARCH PROBLEM
INTERROGATIVE STATEMENT