Approaches to Research

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• We can find three main approaches for research

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

• Mixed Methods

• It is a means to explore to and understand the meaning that individuals or groups atribute to a human or social problem  

• Approaches to Research

• It is a means to taste objective theories by examining the relationship between variables

• It is a research approach that combines or associates qualitative and quantitative methods and concepts

• Inductive Style

• It is based on 

• A focus on individual meaning 

• The importance of presenting the complexity of a situation 

• Its process involves

• Emerging questions and procedures

• Data collected in the participant's environment 

• Data analysis constructed inductively from details to general topics

• Researcher makes interpretations of the meaning of the data

• The final written report has a flexible structure

• It is based on

• It is based on

• Its process involves

• Its process involves 

• Deductive Style 

• Building protections against bias

• Controlling alternative explanations

• Managing to generalize and replicate the findings 

• Variables can be measured

• Numbered data can be analyzed using statistical procedures 

• Final written report has an established structure 

• Introduction

• Literature and Theory 

• Methods

• Results 

• Discussion

• It involves more than simply collecting and analyzing data

• It implies the use of qualitative and quantitative approaches 

• It pretends that the strength of a study be grater than qualitative or quantitative research 

• Philosophical assumtions

• Qualitative and quantitative approaches

• The mixing of both approaches in a study

• On which of these approaches to use should be taken into acoount that :

• We must ask ourselves investigative questions

• Their use depends on aspects such as the theoretical approach, the proposed objectives or one's own preferences, among many others

• We must investigate different perspectives, from different realities

• Qualitative approach allows to explore the problems in grater depth 

• Quantitative approach allows obtaining a more detailed understandingwithin an area