Question

Q1. Differentiate between Quantitative vs. Qualitative research. Give examples from the articles you have referred in assignment 1

Q2. a. From the the articles you referred in assignment 1 explain one of the quantitative analysis used by the any author. b. Explain, what is ANOVA and Regression Analysis and its use in research

Q3. Bring out the steps in Conducting Experiments and their concerned design

Q4. Explain interview methods and the areas of concern in conducting them

Answer 1

Quantitative research is expressed in numbers and graph and can be used to test or confirm theories and assumptions .methods experiment,observation

Eg alcohol addiction among teenagers

Qualitative research

Deals with words and meaning for gaining knowledge,used to understand concept ,thoughts.helps to collect in-depth knowledge.

Eg, customer satisfaction relating to a particular product.

2 A

It is an inquiry into the social problem,Aliaga and Gunderson have described about quantitative research .It gather numerical data and anlysed mathematically.use cause and effect relationship.observation and experiment are used to collect data.

B Anova :after collecting data from experiment we wants to make inferences by using sample information for population with various treatment .The method used to compare the treatment means is called Anova

While re gression analysis is a powerful tool estimate the relationship between dependent and independent variables.

3 creat the research problem

Conduct background research

Set hypothesis

Design experiment

Perform experiment

Collect data

Draw conclusion

Publish findings

4 personal interview for collecting primary and confidential data

Telephone interview used to collect data cheeply from a wide and long area

Email or web page interview

Structured interview - use specific questions

Unstructured interview_ use general questions