NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Student: Liselle Diaz THIS FORM MUST BE COMPLETELY FILLED IN Follow these procedures: If requested by your instructor, please include an assignment cover sheet. This will become the first page of your assignment. In addition, your assignment header should include your last name, first initial, course code, dash, and assignment number. This should be left justified, with the page number right justified. For example: DoeJXXX0000-1
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theory is the pinnacle of that development. Today research in tourism is done using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. If the research is designed to prove a theory it takes the deductive strategy while on the other hand inductive strategy is used to generate theory. The developments are not only in the approaches and strategies but ar also found in the data collection tools and analysis techniques used to collect and interpret data. The study ended by concluding that there is no bad or wrong
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Fundamentals of quantitative research Suphat Sukamolson, Ph.D. Language Institute Chulalongkorn University Abstract The main purpose of this article is to introduce some important fundamental concepts of quantitative research to readers especially novice researchers. It comprises types of research, definitions of quantitative research, different types and assumptions of quantitative research, when to use and not to use quantitative methods, advantages, common approaches and samples of quantitative
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most commonly used research instruments in quantitative research Studies include Questionnaire, Tests, and Surveys. Validity is the degree to which an instrument measure what it is purports to measure. Imprecise information collection can influence the outcome of a study and eventually lead to unacceptable results. Reliability is the internal consistency or stability of the measuring device over time (Gay, 1996). The collection data of Quantitative methods depend on random sampling and organized data
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QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Introduction Suppose that we have carried out a survey on the effect of carrying out a management audit with three groups of nine participant institutions each i.e. small medium and large. Each group was given the same survey questions in questionnaire format and the answers from the scores were tagged between 0 and 20. What is to be done with the raw scores? There are two key types of measures that can be taken whenever we have a set of scores from
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using different methods of data-collecting tools. There are two methods for collecting data in scientific research: primary data collection method and secondary data collection. Primary data are sets of data researchers collect from participants and secondary data are sets of data researchers collect from literatures, document from precedent researches and using internet. Primary data collection for quantitative studies consists of interviews, questionnaire survey and observational method. But here the
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bias are distinguished. The first mode comprises two methods aimed at the detection and measurement of social desirability. A second category comprises of seven methods to prevent or reduce social desirability bias, including the use of forced choice items, the randomized response technique, the bogus pipeline, self-administration of the questionnaire, the selection of the interviews and the use of proxy subjects, Belli et al (1999). QUANTITATIVE VARIABLE: These are numerically in form. Therefore
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Qualitative Research in Nursing Date of last revision : January 28, 2011 “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts” -Albert Einstein INTRODUCTION • Qualitative research methods have become increasingly important as ways of developing nursing knowledge for evidence-based nursing practice. Qualitative research answers a wide variety of questions related to nursing's concern with human responses to actual or potential health problems. (Ploeg J
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but the scientific method is probably the most common one. Research also plays a vital role in the human services field. Research methods such as the scientific method helps human services professionals to make numerous informed decisions daily. A description of the scientific method research along with the definition, as well as the explanation of how it relates to human services research will be described in this paper. The terms quantitative, qualitative and mixed method research will also
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CONTENTS Introduction… Pg 3 Evaluation of Research as Quantitative… Pg 4 Evaluation of the Methodology… Pg 5 Explanation on how the researcher used this method… Pg 6 Comments on the contribution of the research… Pg 7 Conclusion… Pg 7 References… Pg 8 Introduction “Friction between Public Relations( PR) and advertising( marketing) comes from bad organizational alignment,” says Scott( Anonymous 66:3). This
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