steps minimises this difficulty. Personally, knowledge of these steps will be useful in answering criminal justice research questions wherein qualitative designs such as ethnography and phenomenology would be the most appropriate.
Week 4 -- Discussion 1
Two important tenets that underpin quantitative research are generalisation and cause-and-effect relationships (Creswell, 2014). In quantitative research, knowledge is viewed as objective and universal (Martin & Bridgmon, 2012). This means that the findings obtained from a sample within a given population can be representative of the general population. This aspect is what fundamentally differentiates quantitative research from qualitative research. The findings essentially… Continue Reading...
research studies are all driven by an attempt to answer a particular research question (Labaree, 2018). Qualitative designs include phenomenological (studying a particular phenomenon in a general fashion), case studies (focusing on a single person or group), ethnographies (study of a particular culture), or grounded theory approaches (creating a theory after doing inductive research) (Labaree, 2018). Unlike quantitative research, qualitative research designs are not designed to answer a specific, limited, and enclosed question.
Q4. What are differences in determining sample size between quantitative and qualitative research studies?
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Phenomenological Design: An Overview
Phenomenology is one of a multitude of different qualitative designs that a researcher can select. Other potential options include case studies, ethnographies, and grounded research. Phenomenology is one of the oldest and most flexible of all qualitative approaches. Phenomenology is a way of knowing that is focused not upon a predefined research question or even a highly specific community or individual like an ethnography or case study. It is a unique form of epistemology or way of knowing. “A paradigm is the patterning of the thinking of a person; it is a principal example among examples, an exemplar… Continue Reading...
Discussion: Designing Mixed Methods Research
Mixed methods research is more than simply taking a quantitative design and a qualitative design and putting them together. The methods should complement one another and be relevant to the subject that is being studied. For example, a researcher who wants to conduct exploratory research would benefit more from using a qualitative design than a mixed methods design, as the latter could potentially drain resources that could be better used conducting the exploratory part of the investigation. However, using the mixed methods approach is useful when both qualitative data and quantitative data can be easily combined to enhance a study (Johnson & Onwuegbuzie,… Continue Reading...
