Which is Research Approach is Better?
To assist you with this assignment, you can view this video for a brief lecture on Qualitative and Quantitative research, however, the assignment can be completed without viewing the video.
Consider the following scenario: You have been asked to study patterns of homelessness for a homeless shelter in a large city. The city has a diverse multi-ethnic population. You are to collect general data and present your findings to the board of directors.
In a 1-2 page paper, address the following:
Will you use a qualitative or quantitative approach in collecting your data? (You can only choose one approach).
Defend your approach and explain your reasons for using that model. Be specific. Give examples.
Be sure to check your work for spelling and grammar errors. Use APA formatting.
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(video; For purposes of comparison research tools and techniques can be divided into two broad categories qualitative and quantitative. quantitative research method usually include the surveys styles techniques that usually have a questionnaire, and you send it out via the mail via a phone survey, and you’re looking for Mass numbers of people, you’re looking for large samples of a population and you can in fact obviously attain that goal because you have a survey you put together a number of questions and interview schedule and then you sent that out in folks answer that and send that back at that point time you code your data and entered into a computer program in statistically analyzed. Take this whole thing break it into parts and then measure the parts, and add the measurementall add together, and that’s supposed to equal the entire thing. the other school or approach would be more qualitative and those kinds of folks use all kind of materials based on observations, interviews in order to make sense of the daily lives of people. For example in order to study children’s experiences of gender I got access to different elementary schools and hung out with kids and kept records kept field notes about what went on looking for patterns in and processing a kind of qualitative information.)