Question

WRITE THE RATIONAL FOR CORRECT AND INCORRECT ANSWERSM (WRITE FALSE OR TRUE). ALL THAT APPLY. You are designing a mixed methods study investigating what it is like to be a 2nd degree accelerated BSN student. During data collection you will ask the participants two questions/prompts: one quantitative and one qualitative. Your first question is “What is your first bachelor’s degree?” What are possible options for the second question/prompt:

A) What area or specialty in nursing practice would be your first choice? Rationale:

B) Describe what influenced you to return to school for a nursing degree Rationale:

C) How many years have you been in college? Rationale:

D) Explain your biggest challenges in the nursing program Rationale:

E) Discuss how you think being a 2nd degree student impacts your educational experience Rationale:

Answer 1

Quantitative survey questions are defined as objective questions used to gain detailed insights from respondents about a survey research topic. ... Feedback received to quantitative survey questions is related to, measured by or measuring a “quantity” or a statistic and not the “quality” of the parameter. Qualitative research questions differ from quantitative research questions. Because qualitative research questions seek to explore or describe phenomena, not provide a neat nomothetic explanation, they are often more general and vaguely worded. They may include only one concept, though many include more than one.

A) What area or specialty in nursing practice would be your first choice? Rationale: This is a descriptive question and hence FALSE as second question should be a quantitative question. Here the answer needs to be descriptive.Hence not quantitative.

B) Describe what influenced you to return to school for a nursing degree Rationale: This is a descriptive question and hence FALSE as second question should be a quantitative question. Here the answer is not measurable since it needs to be described.

C) How many years have you been in college? Rationale: TRUE. Here the question is a quantitative one and the answer is measurable. Hence appropriate for a second question as per the criteria given. Answer will be given in numbers which is measurable.

D) Explain your biggest challenges in the nursing program Rationale:This is a descriptive question and hence FALSE as second question should be a quantitative question. Challenge needs to be elaborated and hence falls ubder qualitative question.

E) Discuss how you think being a 2nd degree student impacts your educational experience Rationale:This is a descriptive question and hence FALSE as second question should be a quantitative question. Discussion always comes as a qualitative question which needs to be described and not measured.