Please provide your answers by Usic https://padlet.com/usictech/5cmk5w12rwgeaclk What are the differences between qualitative and quantitative research? What is a hypothesis? Is it used in quantitative or qualitative research? What are the variables? Are they used in quantitative or qualitative research? What are key methods of data collection in qualitative and quantitative research? en-us 2021-11-17 09:58:09 UTC 2021-11-17 11:14:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Group3 https://padlet.com/usictech/5cmk5w12rwgeaclk/wish/1896504911 1.What are the differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
Qualitative research is not based on answering a hypothesis and is for understanding social phenomena, but quantitative research relies on an objective look at factual data to provide answers.

2.What is a hypothesis? Is it used in quantitative or qualitative research?
It's used in quantitative. Put simply, a hypothesis is a specific, testable prediction. More specifically, it describes in concrete terms what you expect will happen in a certain circumstance. A hypothesis is used to determine the relationship between two variables, which are the two things that are being tested.

3.What are the variables? Are they used in quantitative or qualitative research?
It's used in quantitative. The variables are like what affects the final outcome in research, like scientific research uses variables. A variable is any factor, trait, or condition that can exist in differing amounts or types. An experiment usually has three kinds of variables: independent, dependent, and controlled.

4.What are key methods of data collection in qualitative and quantitative research?
qualitative research:
-interviews
-surveys
-group discussions
-observations
quantitative research:
-Survey questionnaires.
-Structured (systematic) observations.  
-Secondary analysis of data sets. 


]]> 2021-11-17 10:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/5cmk5w12rwgeaclk/wish/1896504911 Group 1 https://padlet.com/usictech/5cmk5w12rwgeaclk/wish/1896507014 1. Quantitative Research puts emphasis on the quantification in the collection and analysis of data and objective facts
Qualitative Research on the other hand is subjective and specific, it's based on human emotion and thinking and opinions rather than facts. 
2. Hypothesis  is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon, without any assumption of truth, it is a specific testable prediction.   For quantitative research, the hypothesis used is a statistical hypothesis, meaning that the hypothesis must be tested using statistical rules. In qualitative research, a hypothesis is used in the form of a clear statement concerning the problem to be investigated. 
3. Qualitative- Study of the whole, not variables. (Words, images, or objects)
Quantitative- Specific variables studied. (Numbers statistics) 
Qualitative research has no variables. In qualitative research raw data are transformed into the final descriptions, or themes and categories.
4. Qualitative data such as open- ended responses, interviews, participant observations, field notes, & reflections
- interviews, surveys, group discussions, and observations are the most widely and commonly used qualitative data collection methods.
Quantitative data based on precise measurements using structured & validated data-collection instruments
- Experiments, Controlled observations, Surveys: paper, kiosk, mobile, questionnaires, Longitudinal studies, Polls and etc


]]> 2021-11-17 10:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/5cmk5w12rwgeaclk/wish/1896507014 GROUP 2 https://padlet.com/usictech/5cmk5w12rwgeaclk/wish/1896509496 1.In a nutshell, qualitative research generates “textual data” (non-numerical). Quantitative research, on the contrary, produces “numerical data” or information that can be converted into numbers.

2.hypothesis: According to the pre-set, the interpretation of a phenomenon, that is, according to known scientific facts and principles, the natural phenomenon and its regularity of the study put forward speculation and explanation, and the data after detailed classification, induction and analysis, to obtain a temporary but acceptable interpretation.
Qualitative research uses hypothesis

3.A variable in research simply refers to a person, place, thing, or phenomenon that you are trying to measure in some way.
Quantitative research use variable

4.After obtaining data through quantitative research, you can use statistical methods to analyze the aggregate data and find patterns or commonalities in the data. The results can be presented in graphs and tables.
 interviews, focus groups, case studies, discourse analysis, literature review
questionnaire, experiment, existing data method, observation, content analysis.

Some general methods for analyzing qualitative data are:
Qualitative content analysis: Tracking the location, occurrence, and specific meaning of words or phrases
Subject analysis: Scrutinize the data to identify topics and patterns
Discourse Analysis: How does communication work in social contexts
interviews, focus groups, case studies, discourse analysis, literature review

 
]]> 2021-11-17 10:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/5cmk5w12rwgeaclk/wish/1896509496 G4 https://padlet.com/usictech/5cmk5w12rwgeaclk/wish/1896510574 Quantitative:
. Numbers 
• Researcher’s view 
• Researcher distant 
• Theory testing 
• Static 
• Structured 
• Macro 
• Hard, reliable data 
• Behaviour 
• Generalisation 

Qualitative:• Words
• Participants’ view
• Researcher close
• Theory emergent • Dynamic
• Unstructured
• Micro • Rich, deep data
• Meaning
• Contextual understanding

hypothesis is to interpret the result
variables are changeable numbers

both hypothesis and variables are used in quantitative research,  and quantitative research aims at prove a hypothesis by looking at the variables.


quantitative data is collected in one source while qualitative data is collected in lots of sources, in order to look at different aspects in different observation. 



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