Nature and

Inquiry of
Research

PRACTICAL RESEARCH 2 - LESSON 1

Objectives

DEFINE QUANTITATIVE DESCRIBE THE DESCRIBE THE STRENGTH

RESEARCH ACCURATELY CHARACTERISTICS OF AND WEAKNESSES OF
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
As a good researcher, answer the following
questions:

1. What are the 2. How are these

qualities / qualities / 3. How do we develop
characteristics of a characteristics these characteristics?
good researcher? manifested?
Advantages of quantitative research include:

1. It is objective. Since it provides numerical data, it can be easily interpreted.

2. Quantitative research design is the most reliable and valid way of concluding results,
giving way to a new hypothesis, or to disprove it.

3. The use of statistical techniques facilitates sophisticated analyses and allows you to
comprehend a huge number of vital characteristics of data.
Advantages of quantitative research include:

4. The numerical data can be

5. Quantitative studies are
analyzed quickly and easily. By
replicable. Standardized
employing statistically valid
approaches allow the study to be
random models, findings can be
replicated in different areas or
generalized to the population
over time with the formulation of
about which information is
comparable findings.
necessary.
Advantages of quantitative research include:

6. It uses robust
7. It allows for greater
instrumentation, which
accuracy data because
may yield results that can
variables are isolated,
be generalized to a larger
manipulated, and
population and other
rigorously controlled.
research settings.
Advantages of quantitative research include:

8. Results can be replicated, analyzed, and compared with similar

studies due to the use of robust instrumentation.

9. Personal bias is avoided because quantitative data are arrived

using established procedures.
The disadvantages of quantitative
research are as follows:

It is costly. Since there are more

Quantitative research requires a
respondents compared to
large number of respondents. It
qualitative research, the
assumed that the larger the
expenses will be greater in
sample is, the more statistically
reaching out to these people and
accurate the findings are.
reproducing questionnaires.
The disadvantages of quantitative
research are as follows:
4. Much information is difficult to gather
3. Numerical data do not provide
detailed accounts of the phenomenon and
do not capture accounts of human
participation.
using structured research instruments,
specifically on sensitive issues like pre-
marital sex, domestic violence, among
others. Preselected options in a
questionnaire do not necessarily reflect
how participants truly feel about the
question being asked.
The disadvantages of
quantitative research are
as follows:
5. If not done seriously and
correctly, data from the
questionnaires may be
incomplete and inaccurate.
Researches must be on the
look-out on respondents who
are just guessing in answering
the instrument.
Challenge 1

Directions:
Write four good points of quantitative research
which makes it important to researchers. Place
your answer in a concept map.
Challenge 2

Write your concise learning about the following:

1. Characteristics of Quantitative Research
2. Strengths of Quantitative Research
3. Weaknesses of Quantitative Research