Stages of Research Process
Article 1
Title: Beyond the Qualitative – Quantitative Distinction: Some Innovative Methods for Business and Management Research
Purpose of the Research The article entitled “Beyond Qualitative – Quantitative Distinction: Some Innovative Methods for Business and Management Research” focuses on the mixed methods of research that applies to a number of popular approaches that simply exceed the quantitative – qualitative differences. In business and management researches, the mixed method designs provide sophisticated ideas with potential benefits for the research itself. The entire content of the article demonstrates the appropriateness, especially in the integrated mixed methods with objectives presented. Its primary
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Variables The mixed methods research serves as the independent variables; it allows the various ideas with rich results. It offers wide opportunity to accomplish proper understanding in the case of qualitative or quantitative methods (Krivokapic-Skoko & O 'Neill, 2011). The researchers or students are the dependent variables to gain much intellect from the multiple sources available; it provides useful and direct knowledge that pertains to the methods utilized by the researchers in business and management research.
Article 2
Title: Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Research Designs
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Particularly, the methods focus in the evaluation of the different interventions and its development. The qualitative methods are useful to the development of its quantitative tools and the quantitative research informs qualitative research. The method that complements and explains a primary qualitative data is the quantitative method. Both the qualitative and quantitative methods have equal and parallel intensity. In addition, it reviews the studies that are published with combined approaches in qualitative and quantitative researches. The mixed methods resonate with the complexity of the palliative care that ventures in the research and the employed applications necessary. The research involves the data collection and analysis with integrated finding using qualitative and quantitative approaches. It is recommended that both approaches should develop and evaluate the complex interventions necessary for the palliative care research. Overall, the research requires deep understanding of the research processes and its perspective.
Research Questions After a thorough reading, the research questions focused on: Are the palliative care researchers needing innovations or creative approaches in the current generation of researches? Do the multi-dimensional scopes of the increasingly diverse and dispersed nature
Pure qualitative research uses the idea that there are multiple realities that may shift or evolve due to changes in events and situations. In one sense, qualitative researchers might, as Tanya R. Berry reported in “Qualitative researchers as modern day Sophists? Reflections on the qualitative-quantitative divide” (2011), say “there is no reality – just experience.” Thus, qualitative research studies may produce glimpses of the more slippery version of “truth” that quantitative research would never real. However, the more structured and disciplined constructs used by quantitative researchers may also be necessary to nail down the trends, opinions, and ideas revealed through qualitative
The first journal article is about advance care planning (ACP) in palliative care. This is of interest due to several clinical experiences and the realization that many families either ignore the patient’s request for end of life (EOL) care or who have no idea of how to plan for EOL care. By reading the research and understanding the methods used, this will allow for insight into how to implement palliative care into clinical practice across different sites. The authors of this original research are Jeanine Blackford PhD, RN, senior lecturer at La Trobe University in Australia, and Annette Street PhD, associate dean of research and professor of cancer and palliative care studies. According to Blackford & Street (2011), this research is important as there are many countries that “report a low percentage of people who have completed an advance care plan” (p. 2022), and ACP is needed upon admission to facilities that offer palliative care. In addition, the purpose of the study is to try and obtain guidance to integrate an ACP model into routine clinical practice in the community. The research question chosen for the analysis of this article is: Is it feasible to implement ACP into routine practice and documentation at multi-site locations in...
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To fulfill accuracy in this research, the main strategy that is used is the mixed methods, which lies under the post-positivist philosophy. This strategy is mainly the result of the combination of the positivist and the anti-positivist philosophies. In their book Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research, Creswell and Plano Clark (2011, p. 5) state that the mixed methods technique “[…] involves philosophical assumptions that guide the direction of the collection and analysis of data and the mixture of qualitative and quantitative data in a single study or series of studies.”
In social research, researchers are always confronting with a vast majority of options for opting the research methods. Among all of the existing research methods, quantitative and qualitative research paradigms appear to be the most celebrated methods for the majority of the social researchers. However, social researchers (e.g. David and Sutton, 2004; Johnson and Onwuegbuzie, 2004) have argued for many decades with regards to the differentiated nature and ideologies of the terms ‘quantitative’ and ‘qualitative’ within social research. Some researchers (e.g. Ayer, 1959; Schrag, 1992; Maxwell and Delaney, 2004) who advocate quantitative research uphold a ‘positivist philosophy’, that objective social science observation is desirable and that the determined scientific outcomes need to be valid and reliable (Johnson and Onwuegbuzie, 2004:14). In this sense, research quantitatively denotes that research intends to quantify the
There are many elements involved in conducting a proper research. The two general types of research designs are qualitative and quantitative. These types of designs are different in many ways. Quantitative is an objective research typically focused on numerical data. Qualitative research is subjective research focused on narrative data. This paper further elaborates on many elements that separate quantitative research from qualitative research.
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Some researchers exclusively use quantitative (one) or qualitative (the other) research approaches citing that there are differences in the two styles. Professing quantitatively an objective truth and a single reality or promoting qualitatively a subjective truth and multiple realities (Castellan, 2010). It is also possible, and maybe even desirable to use both qualitative and quantitative methods combined, but if doing so, the researcher needs to be warned that it is very difficult to maintain the integrity of each approach when completing a comprehensive qualitative study while conducting a sophisticated quantitative study (Castellan, 2010). In comparing two assigned research studies, we
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The evaluation of the philosophical debate in the area of the mixed-methods approach does not only consider the data collection process, but rather covers the whole research process, beginning with the very conceptualization of the subject to be studied. This paper therefore describes what mixed-methods entails and the philosophical issues that must be dealt with as a researcher makes the decision to use this approach, as opposed to using either a quantitative or a qualitative approach.
There are several definitions of Mixed method research, a study by Johnson et al. (2007) found that mixed methods research has been defined in 19 different ways. Prominent among those definition includes that of Creswell and Clark (2007) defines Mixed method research as research in which data collection and analysis are to integrate the findings and draw influences using both qualitative and quantitative approaches or methods in a single study or inquiry. The emphasis on the definition is “integrate “, ascertaining that, many scholars believe that mixing or integration happens at different stages of the research process. Similarly, Tashakkori and Teddlie (2010), defines mixed methods research as a type of research design in which QUAL and QUAN ( qualitative and quantitative) approaches are used in research questions, methods, data collection and analysis procedures, or in inferences. Different Challenges facing MMM which will be discussed in the next
This paper aims to define mixed methods research and to answer the following question: if researchers are on the same team, yet have different philosophical approaches, can this be reconciled? In general, mixed research or mixed method was defined as “a synthesis that includes ideas from qualitative and quantitative research”(Johnson, Onwuegbuzie, & Turner, 2007). They also, mentioned other definitions for the mixed method such as Greene’s definition that is “Mixed method inquiry is an approach to investigating the social world that ideally involves more than one methodological tradition and thus more than one way of knowing, along with more than one kind of technique for gathering, analyzing, and representing human phenomena, all for the purpose
Traditional research may use quantitative or qualitative research method. According to Hendricks (2009), quantitative research is a general conclusion based on hard data. Hen-dricks describe quantitativ...
….both quantitative and qualitative research are important and useful. The goal of mixed methods research is not to replace either of these approaches but rather to draw from the strengths and minimize the weaknesses of both in single research studies and across studies.