Quantitative Research And Its Importance

Quantitative research and its importance

Introduction

The issue of activity 3 "Research paradigms" aims to express the importance and relationship of research activity. Starting from this, research is the basis for the development of society in general, which is born from the individual’s need to explain the phenomena of their immediate context.

 It serves as a tool to generate prevention proposals that solve existing problems in society, in the presence of the complication that currently arises, schools are committed to the production of knowledge to solve the problems that are manifested in each of the disciplines of The different educational programs.

Therefore, the present activity aims to describe and analyze the issues, in regard to research and knowledge society, to the construction of scientific knowledge, also to the basic concepts of scientific research, having knowledge about these issues , the problems that arise in society will be resolved and professionals capable of contributing to the different areas of knowledge will be obtained.

Developing

Qualitative research paradigms Quantitative research mixed research

Characteristic

 • Focused on phenomenology, constructivism, naturalism and interpretive.

• Naturist observation without control.

• Admits subjectivity.

• Inferences of your data.

• Exploratory, inductive and descriptive.

• It is oriented to the process.

• Reality does change for observations and data collection.

• Non -generalizable: isolated case studies.

• Holistic.

• Dynamic reality

• Data in the form of texts, images, audiovisual pieces, documents and personal objects.

• Does not usually try theories or hypotheses.

• It has no procedure rules.

• Research is flexible, evolutionary and recursive nature. • Based on positivism, neopositivism and positivism.

• Penetrating and controlled measurement.

• seeks to be objective.

• Inferences beyond data.

• It is confirmatory, inferential and deductive.

• Reality does not change for the observations and measurements made.

• Generalizable: Multiple case studies.

• particularist.

• Static reality.

• The data is represented in the form of a number that are statistically analyzed.

• The physical interaction between the researcher and the phenomenon is close, there is usually contact.

• The nature of the data is numerical.

• It is based on pragmatism; Gather techniques qualitative and quantitative techniques.

• Application of triangulation and the use of several methods in the same study to increase the validity of analysis and inferences.

• Has holistic vision in which a more complete and comprehensive approach to the phenomenon studied is obtained, using qualitative and quantitative information.

• It has expansion to develop the amplitude and inquiry range using different methods for different stages of the research process.

• Facilitates sampling of the cases of one method, relying on the other.

• Consolidates the arguments from the collection and analysis of the data for both methods.

Impact on explicit researcher activity. Since the researcher recognizes his own values ​​and beliefs, they are even part of the study, it requires having a great ability to interpret the information collected in the field of research, this more than a technique is an art, it does not consist only of cold analysis of the data obtained, but in a sensitive and detailed description of these, their interaction is close, close, empathic, with involvement. Neutral. Because the researcher puts aside his own values ​​and beliefs. The position of the

Results, its interaction is distanced, distant, neutral, without involvement. The researcher acknowledges that this type of research is superior, because it uses positivist and naturalistic paradigms for data collection, giving a priority place to data triangulation, when combining these paradigms, better opportunities are obtained to approach important difficulties of the Research, since, data such as images, narratives or verbalizations of the actors can be incorporated, offering greater sense to numerical data.

conclusion

Based on the activity carried out, I managed to identify the interrelation that exists between research and knowledge society to know its importance as a promoter of prosperity today. I also managed to differentiate the epistemological positions that support the construction of scientific knowledge, in addition to identifying the phases of the research methodology through the discernment of the paradigms and the types of research that give them come as are the qualitative, quantitative and mixed research.

In general terms, the three approaches (quantitative, qualitative and mixed) are paradigms of scientific research, since extremely methodical, systematic and empirical processes are used to produce knowledge. Quantitative research is used for data collection to test hypotheses, based on numerical measurement and statistical analysis, to establish behavior patterns and test theories. If we refer to qualitative research, you use data collection without numerical measurement, use them to find or refine research questions in the interpretation process.

To conclude, I will mention mixed research, I identify and my position is in favor of it, because it is based on inquiry into the alleged collecting various types of data, so it provides a better understanding of the research problem, when making use From this type of research, words, figures and narratives can be included to add meaning to the numbers, numbers can also be used to add precision to words, figures and narratives, providing strengths of qualitative and quantitative investigations, when mixing both approaches The research points will be widely guaranteed because it will not be limited to a single method or approach.