Tuesday, 18/1/2011
Last week, Dr. Izaham cancelled the class because he had to attend to something. For this week, we continued to the most initial and basic part of research – the research methodologies. This is important because every researcher needs to know what type of research they want to do and what kind of methodology they want to employ.
There are two types of research methodology – quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative research deals with numbers and statistics, while qualitative research concerns with analytical analysis from verbal data or document analysis. Both methods are reliable, but it is dependent on the researcher what type of research is suitable to investigate the topic the researcher wants to cover. When Dr. Izaham lectured about quantitative methodology, it has somehow refreshed my memory about what I had learned before. The way Dr. Izaham put it was more comprehensible and easier for me to understand as he gave examples to illustrate what he said. The lecture was presented in a way that compared quantitative and qualitative research that enables me to differentiate both of them.
Quantitative research methodologies can be done through 5 ways – experimental, correlational, causal-comparative, single subject, and survey. These methodologies are great to test theories or relationship, as they are very rich in numbers. For my research proposal, I would like to do quantitative research, but so far, I am still not confident to employ experimental, correlational or causal-comparative because I am not quite sure how to analyze the data. I have the perception that these methodologies are very difficult to do and very complex. Therefore, to be on safer side, I think I would go for survey research which is not that complex. But still, it is still too early to decide on the methodologies because we have not discussed about data analysis yet. Maybe after I have understood how to analyze the data, I will be interested to do research using those methodologies.
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