LESSON 2: IMPORTANCE OF

QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS

VARIOUS FIELDS
 PRE-TEST QUESTIONS

Answer the questions below.

Follow instructions properly.
MATCHING TYPE.
Match item in COLUMN A with those of COLUMN B
by placing the letter of the correct answers in the space
provided in column A from among the choices I column
B. Identify what discipline the given research title is
related.
   COLUMN A COLUMN B
  1. What Effect do Punitive Behavioral A.  QUANTI & ANTHROPOLOGY
Control Statements have on Classroom?
B. QUANTI & COMMUNICATION
  2. The Relationship between the
Mushrooming of Fast Food Chains and C. QUANTI & SPORTS MED.
Obesity of Children in Kuopo, Eastern
D. QUANTI & MEDICAL ED.
England.
  3. Effect of Tourism to the Cultural System E. QUANTI & BEHAVIORAL SCI.
of Villagers in Southern Cordillera.
  4. Factors Affecting Quality of Medical F. QUANTI & EDUCATION
Education in Saint Louis University.
G. QUANTI & PSYCHOLOGY
  5. Relationship of Verbally Aggressive
Behavior to the Physical Aggression of a H. QUANTI & ABM
Person.
  I. QUANTI & STEM
 
   COLUMN A COLUMN B
  6. Factors Affecting Crime Rates in  
A.  QUANTI & ANTHROPOLOGY
Burgos, La Union.
  7. Video Integration in Teaching Science in B. QUANTI & COMMUNICATION
Grade 12 of Upper Tumapoc National
High School. C. QUANTI & SPORTS MED.
  8. Communicative Behaviors Associated in
D. QUANTI & MEDICAL ED.
Different Stages of a Romantic
Relationship. E. QUANTI & BEHAVIORAL SCI.
  9. Ethnographic Study: Changes of Aeta
F. QUANTI & EDUCATION
Behaviors in past 5 years.
  10.Relationship of Physical Activity to the G. QUANTI & PSYCHOLOGY
Amount of Adipose Tissue and
Endurance Fitness of Children Aged 15 H. QUANTI & ABM
– 22 in Burgos, La Union.
 
I. QUANTI & STEM
 
1.How quantitative research related or
important to different field of discipline?
2.Choose two disciplines enumerated above
(column B) and explain how quantitative
research was used on it.
IMPORTANCE OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS
FIELDS

People do research to find solutions, even tentative ones, to

problems, in order to improve or enhance ways of doing things, to
disprove or provide a new hypothesis, or simply to find answers
to questions or solutions to problems in daily life. Research
findings can affect people’s lives, ways of doing things, laws,
rules and regulations, as well as policies, among others. Widely,
quantitative research is often used because of its emphasis on
proof rather than discovery.
In recent times, research studies are gaining an unprecedented
focus and attention. Then, only the faculty in higher education has
so much interest and conduct researchers, but now even the
teachers in the basic education are engrossed in researches and
devote time and effort in conducting researches to improve
educational practices that may lead to more quality learning of the
students. Many teachers do action researches because there is a
serious need to identify the problems of the deteriorating quality
of education. By doing so, they can address systematically and
make educational decisions regarding the problems met.
Innovative teaching strategies are product of research.
 In the natural and social sciences, quantitative research is
the systematic, empirical investigation of observable
phenomena via statistical, mathematical or computational
techniques. The objective of quantitative research is to develop
and employ mathematical models, theories and/or hypotheses
pertaining to phenomena. The process of measurement is
central to quantitative research because it provides the
fundamental connection between empirical observation and
mathematical expression of quantitative relationships.
 Health Sciences (Medical Technology, Dentistry, Nursing,
Medicine, etc.) use quantitative research designs like
descriptive, pre-experimental, quasi-experimental, true-
experiment, case study, among others.
 
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH &
ACCOUNTING, BUSINESS AND
MANAGEMENT (ABM)
Researches can help design a new product or service,
figuring out what is needed and ensure the development
of product is highly targeted towards demand.
Businessmen can also utilize research results to
guarantee sufficient distribution of their products and
decide where they need to increase their product
distribution. Conducting researches can also help a
business determine whether now is the proper time to
open another branch or whether it needs to apply for a
new loan.
It may also help a small business decide if a procedure or
strategy should be change to meet the requirements of the
customer base. Research is important for any organization to
remain in the market. The primary function of research in
ABM is to correctly determine its customers and their
preferences, establish the enterprise in the most feasible
location, deliver quality goods and services, analyze what the
competitors are doing and find ways on how to continuously
satisfy the growing and varied needs of the clients.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH AND
ANTHROPOLOGY
 Anthropology is a research method of combining
qualitative and quantitative research data. It is concerned
with exploring connections simultaneously, amidst cultural
differences, alternatives and identity. In the contemporary
academic, socio-cultural and political climate these
concepts have immense symbolic overtones.
 Quantitative research is use in Anthropology in
many aspects. Like, true experiments may use in
studying people provided that you follow certain
steps (Bernard, 2004). This is to look into the Effects
of an intervention in ethnic behavior of a group.
 True experiments with people in laboratory are also common.
Laboratory experiments often produce results that beg to be tested in
the natural world by Anthropologists. Aaron and Mills (1959, as cited
by Bernard, 2004) demonstrated in a lab experiment that people who
go through severe initiation to a group tend to be more positive
toward the group than are people who go through a mild initiation.
They reasoned that people who go through tough initiation rites put a
lot of personal investments into getting into the group. Later, if
people see evidence that the group is not what they thought it would
be, they are reluctant to admit the fact because of the investments.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
AND COMMUNICATION
 Researchers are often interested in how an understanding
of a particular communication phenomenon might generalize
to a larger population. For example, researchers can advance
questions like “What Effect do punitive behavioral control
statements have on a classroom? What communicative
behaviors are associated with different stages in romantic
relationships? What communicative behaviors are used to
respond to co-workers displaying emotional stress? (Allen,
Titsworth, Hunt, 2009)
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
AND SPORTS MEDICINE
Quantitative research is used to analyze how sports may be
used as an alternative way of medicating an illness. An
example is the research done by University of Eastern Finland
which investigated the relationship between mushrooming of
fast food chains and obesity, as well as the intervention needed
to prevent children’s obesity from reaching serious
proportions. The research focused on the children’s physical
activity and physical inactivity and the concomitant impact on
the children’s amount of adipose tissue (fat mass) and the
endurance fitness. The study is used to analyze certain the
effect of physical activity in weight control.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
AND MEDICAL EDUCATION
 Quantitative research in medical education tends to be
predominantly observational research based on surveys or
correlational studies. The designs test interventions like
curriculum, teaching-learning process, or assessment with an
experimental group. Either a comparison or controlled group
learners may allow researchers to overcome validity concerns
and infer potential cause-effect generalizations. Researchers
are using quantitative research to cope with the emerging
trends in recent times.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
 Relationship Questions in today’s quantitative trend
tend to explore how one behavior exhibited by people
is related to other types of behavior. Examples are
verbally aggressive behaviors related to physical
aggression – that is, when a person has a level of
verbally aggressive behavior, does he or she tend to be
physically aggressive? Are certain supervisor
communication skills related to the emotional
experiences of employees?
 Questions of difference explore how patterns of
behavior or perceptions might differ from one group or
type of a person to another: Do people with disabilities
experience emotional labor differently from those
without disabilities? Do women perceive talkativeness
(or lack of it) differently form men? Do
communication styles differ from one culture to the
next? (Alle, Titsworth, Hunt, 2009).
 When quantitative researchers explore questions of
differences or questions of relationships, they do so in
an attempt to uncover certain patterns of behavior. If
the researcher discovers that a certain relationship
exists in sample that she or he has drawn form the
population, she/he is then in a position to draw
generalizations about patterns expected of human
behavior.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
AND PSYCHOLOGY
Mertens (2005) says that the dominant paradigms that
guided early psychological research were positivism and its
successor, post positivism. Positivism is based on
rationalistic, empiricist philosophy that originated with
Aristotle, Francis Bacon, John Locke, August Comte, and
Immanuel Kant. the underlying assumptions of positivism
include the belief that the social world can be studied in the
same way as the natural world, that there is a method for
studying the social world that is value-free, and that
explanations of a causal nature can be provided.
 
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH &
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY,
ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS
 Medical practitioners, for example, conduct researches to
obtain significant information about diseases trends and risk
factors, results of various health interventions, patterns of care
and health care cost and use. The different approaches to
research provide complementary insights. Researchers help in
determining the effectiveness and even side effect of drugs and
therapies in different populations and various institutions. It is
also necessary in evaluating experiences in clinical practice in
order to develop mechanisms for best practices and to ensure
high quality patient care. Researchers in these fields ultimately
aim for man’s longevity.
 As for engineers, architects, and other builders, research
helps in providing designs which are creatively beautiful and
at the same time give more convenience and efficiency as
they utilize modern technology to adapt to the ever changing
society. New materials and procedures may be developed so
as to further strengthen the structural materials than can
withstand various calamities and disasters.
POST_TEST. This serves as your summative test. Answer the
questions below following the instruction given in each test.

•ESSAY. Briefly explain what is asked below.

•How important quantitative research across fields? Cite at least
five fields and explain how quantitative research is interconnected
with it.
•CONCEPT MAP. Complete the concept map presented below.
You add figures so long as you will use your creativity using the
figures given. Present the importance of quantitative research to
different fields. Maximize the space below.
   

   
 

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