GRADE: 12 Semester: First Semester Subject Title: Practical Research PREREQUISITE: Statistics and Probability Common Subject Description
GRADE: 12 Semester: First Semester Subject Title: Practical Research PREREQUISITE: Statistics and Probability Common Subject Description
Common Subject Description: This course develops critical thinking and problem-solving skills through
quantitative research.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
COMPILATION
IN
PRACTICAL RESEARCH 2
PERFORMANCE LEARNING
CONTENT CONTENT STANDARD
STANDARD COMPETENCIES
Human history abounds with problems. Problems are everywhere in different variety in different
perspective which affect mankind. Problems are observed along political, social, environmental and many
aspects of life. This may between individuals, groups or in an organization. In that, mankind wants
solution to these problems. These solutions should not be only effective but also be acquired
and used for improvement. To be able to achieve that, solutions must be based in knowledge, not
on mere beliefs, guesses, or theories. To acquire this knowledge it requires a well-planned and
systematic procedure and should be continuously evaluated on its accuracy and usefulness. In that,
RESEARCH has been devised to meet this need.
Quantitative research designs use numbers in stating generalizations about a given problem
or inquiry in contrast to qualitative research that hardly uses statistical treatment in stating
generalizations. The numbers in quantitative research are the results of objective scales of measurements
of the units of analysis called variables.
In this unit, you will be encountering also the characteristics of quantitative research, its strength
and weaknesses, its kinds and importance across disciplines. In here also, we will be tackling kinds
of variables and its uses.
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PRE-TEST QUESTIONS:
I. TRUE or FALSE. Write QUANTITATIVE after the item when the sentence is true while
QUALITATIVE if the statement is false.
1. In quantitative research, researchers know in advance what they are looking for.
Research design refers to the overall strategy that you choose in order to
integrate the different components of the study in a coherent and logical way, thereby
ensuring you will effectively address the research problem. Furthermore, a research design
constitutes the blueprint for the selection, measurement and analysis of data. The research
problem determines the research you should.
EXPERIMENTAL NON-EXPERIMENTAL
1. Non-equivalent Control
Group Design
2. Time Series Design
The following are the various kinds of quantitative research design that a researcher may employ:
What are the types of quantitative research designs? Give example each type.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
– use numbers in stating generalization
about a given problem or inquiry
STRENGHT WEAKNESSES
Objectivity CHARACTERISTICS Requires large number
of Respondents
Real & Unbiased 1. OBJECTIVE
Costly
Facilitates 2. CLEARLY DEFINED
Contextual Factors are
Sophisticated Analysis RESEARCH QUESTIONS ignored
Analyzed in quick & 3. STRUCTURED Difficult to gather
easy way RESEARCH data
Replicable INSTRUMENTS Little glitch in the
Useful in Testing 4. NUMERICAL DATA procedure leads to
Qualitative Research 5. LARGE SAMPLE SIZES incomplete and
6. REPLICATION inaccurate data
7. FUTURE OUTCOMES
EXPERIMENTAL NON-EXPERIMENTAL/
DESCRIPTIVE
SURVEY
CORRELATIONAL
TRUE-EXPERIMENTAL
QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL
PRE-EXPERIMENTAL
EX POST FACTO
COMPARATIVE
NORMATIVE
EVALUATIVE
METHODOLOGICAL
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MIND CHALLENGE. Answer the following questions, follow directions given.
I. NON-STOP WRITING. In 10 mins., write your concise learning about the following.
1. What is quantitative research?
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2. What are the characteristics of quantitative research?
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3. Discuss the strengths of quantitative research.
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4. Discuss the weaknesses of quantitative research.
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5. Describe each type of quantitative research design. Give example each.
Example: Survey - used to gather information from groups of people by selecting and
studying samples chosen from a population.
Example: Preference T.V network of viewers in Upper Tumapoc, Burgos, La Union.
I. Identification. Identify what is being asked in each number. Write your answer after the
statement.
1. It highlights numerical analysis of data hoping that the numbers yield unbiased results that can be
generalized to some larger population and explain a particular observation.
3. This kind of research derives conclusion from observations and manifestations that already
occurred in the past and now compared to some dependent variables.
7. It refers to the overall strategy that you choose in order to integrate the different components of
the study in a coherent and logical way, thereby ensuring you will effectively address the
research problem.
8. It controls for both time-related and group-related threats. Two features mark true experiments:
two or more differently treated groups; and random assignment to these groups.
9. All variables in the study can contribute to the over-all prediction in an equation that
adds together the predictive power of each identified variable.
10. Its main purpose is to observe, describe and document aspects of a situation as it naturally occurs
and sometimes to serve as a starting point for hypothesis generation or theory development.
II. Multiple Choice. Choose the correct letter that best describe the question or complete the
statement. Write your answer before the number.
4. Standardized approaches allow the study to be replicated in different areas or over time
with formulation of comparable findings.
5. Quantitative experiments are useful for testing the results gained by a series of qualitative
experiments, leading to a final answer, and narrowing down of possible directions to
follow.
6. It is assumed that the larger the sample is, the more statistically accurate the findings are.
7. Researchers must be on the look-out on respondents who are just guessing in answering the
instrument.
8. It does not consider the distinct capacity of the respondents to share and elaborate further
information unlike the qualitative research.
9. It is real and unbiased.
PRE-TEST QUESTIONS:
Answer the questions below. Follow instructions properly.
I. MATCHING TYPE. Match item in COLUMN A with those of COLUMN B by placing the
letter of the correct answers in the space provided in column A from among the choices I column
B. Identify what discipline the given research title is related.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
1. What Effect do Punitive Behavioral Control
Statements have on Classroom?
2. The Relationship between the Mushrooming A. QUANTI & ANTHROPOLOGY
of Fast Food Chains and Obesity of
Children in Kuopo, Eastern England. B. QUANTI & COMMUNICATION
3. Effect of Tourism to the Cultural System of
Villagers in Southern Cordillera. C. QUANTI & SPORTS MED.
4. Factors Affecting Quality of Medical
Education in Saint Louis University. D. QUANTI & MEDICAL ED.
5. Relationship of Verbally Aggressive Behavior
to the Physical Aggression of a Person. E. QUANTI & BEHAVIORAL SCI.
6. Factors Affecting Crime Rates in Burgos, La
Union. F. QUANTI & EDUCATION
7. Video Integration in Teaching Science in
Grade 12 of Upper Tumapoc National High G. QUANTI & PSYCHOLOGY
School.
8. Communicative Behaviors Associated in H. QUANTI & ABM
Different Stages of a Romantic Relationship.
9. Ethnographic Study: Changes of Aeta I. QUANTI & STEM
Behaviors in past 5 years.
10. Relationship of Physical Activity to the
Amount of Adipose Tissue and Endurance
Fitness of Children Aged 15 – 22 in Burgos,
La Union.
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2. Choose two disciplines enumerated above (column B) and explain how quantitative
research was used on it.
People do research to find solutions, even tentative ones, to problems, in order to improve
or enhance ways of doing things, to disprove or provide a new hypothesis, or simply to find answers
to questions or solutions to problems in daily life. Research findings can affect people’s lives, ways of
doing things, laws, rules and regulations, as well as policies, among others. Widely, quantitative research
is often used because of its emphasis on proof rather than discovery.
In recent times, research studies are gaining an unprecedented focus and attention. Then, only
the faculty in higher education has so much interest and conduct researchers, but now even the teachers
in the basic education are engrossed in researches and devote time and effort in conducting
researches to improve educational practices that may lead to more quality learning of the students. Many
teachers do action researches because there is a serious need to identify the problems of the
deteriorating quality of education. By doing so, they can address systematically and make educational
decisions regarding the problems met. Innovative teaching strategies are product of research.
In the natural and social sciences, quantitative research is the systematic, empirical investigation of
observable phenomena via statistical, mathematical or computational techniques. The objective of
quantitative research is to develop and employ mathematical models, theories and/or
hypotheses pertaining to phenomena. The process of measurement is central to quantitative
research because it provides the fundamental connection between empirical observation and
mathematical expression of quantitative relationships.
Health Sciences (Medical Technology, Dentistry, Nursing, Medicine, etc.) use quantitative
research designs like descriptive, pre-experimental, quasi-experimental, true-experiment, case study,
among others.
POST_TEST. This serves as your summative test. Answer the questions below following the
instruction given in each test.
QUANTITATIVE
RESEARCH
PRE-TEST QUESTIONS:
Answer the questions below. Follow instructions properly.
IV. IDENTIFICATION. Identify what is being asked in each number. Write your answer after
the statement. Choose your answer from the box below.
1. It refers to the characteristics that have two or more mutually exclusive values or properties.
2. Variables that represent categories that cannot be ordered in any particular way.
3. Special kind of independent variables that are measured in a study because they potentially
influence the dependent variable.
4. Variables that have values that lie along an evenly dispersed range of numbers when there is
an absolute zero, as opposed to net worth, which can have a negative debt-to-income ratio-
level variable.
5. Kind of variable that are not actually measured or observed in a study. They exist but
their influence cannot be directly detected in a study.
6. It “stands between” the independent and dependent variables, and they show the effects of the
independent variable on the dependent variable.
7. Variables that represent categories that can be ordered from greatest to smallest.
8. Kind of variable that probably cause, influence, or effect outcomes. They are variably called
treatment, manipulated, antecedent or predictor variables.
9. Variables that depend on independent variables; they are the outcomes or results of the influence
of the independent variable.
10. Variables that have values that lie along an evenly dispersed range of numbers.
II. DETERMINATION. Determine if what type of variable are the following. Write I if the variable is
Interval, N if Nominal, R if Ratio and O if Ordinal.
1. Military Title
2. Temperature in degree Celsius
3. Birthplace
4. Year Level
5. Favorite Type of Music
6. Clothing such as hat, shirt, shoes
7. A score in 5- item quiz in Math
8. Feeling for today
9. Means of Transportation
10. How internet is used at home
11. Freshman, Sophomore
12. Person’s net worth
13. Male or female
14. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
15. Political Affiliation
1. CONTINUOUS VARIABLES – A variable that can take infinite number on the value that
can occur within the population. Its values can be divided into fractions. Examples of this
type of variable include age, height, and temperature. Continuous variables can be further
categorized as:
a. INTERVAL VARIABLES – It have values that lie along an evenly dispersed range of
numbers. It is a measurement where the difference between two values does have meaning.
Examples of interval data include temperature, a person’s net worth (how much money
you have when you subtract your debt from your assets), etc. In temperature, this may
illustrate as the difference between a temperature of 60 degrees and 50 degrees is the
same as difference between 30 degrees and 20 degrees. The interval between values makes
sense and can be interpreted.
b. RATIO VARIABLES – It have values that lie along an evenly dispersed range of
numbers when there is absolute zero. It possesses the properties of interval variable and
has a clear definition of zero, indication that there is none of that variable. Examples of
which are height, weight, and distance. Most scores stemming from response to survey
items are ratio-level values because they typically cannot go below zero. Temperature
measured in degrees Celsius and degrees Fahrenheit is not a ratio variable because 0
under these temperatures scales does not mean no temperature at all.
2. DISCRETE VARIABLES – This is also known as categorical or classificatory variable. This
is any variable that has limited number of distinct values and which cannot be divided into
fractions like sex, blood group, and number of children in family. Discrete variable may also
categorized into:
a. NOMINAL VARIABLE – It represent categories that cannot be ordered in any
particular way. It is a variable with no quantitative value. It has two or more categories
but does not imply ordering of cases. Common examples of this variable include eye color,
business type, religion, biological sex, political affiliation, basketball fan affiliation, etc. A sub-
type of nominal scale with only two categories just like sex is known as dichotomous.
b. ORDINAL VARIABLE – It represent categories that can be ordered from greatest to
smallest. This variable has two or more categories which can be ranked. Examples of ordinal
variable include education level, income brackets, etc. An illustration of this is, if you asked
people if they liked listening to music while studying and they could answer either “NOT
VERY MUCH”, “MUCH”, “VERY MUCH” then you have an ordinal variable. While you
can rank them, we cannot place a value to them. In this type, distances between attributes
do not have any meaning. For example, you used educational attainment as a variable on
survey, you might code elementary school graduates = 1, high graduates = 2, college
undergraduate = 3, and college graduate = 4. In this measure, higher number means
greater education. Even though we can rank these from lowest to highest, the spacing
between the values may not be
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the same across the levels of the variables. The distance between 3 and 4 is not the same with
the distance between 1 and 2.
KINDS OF VARIABLES
Several experts have lumped together the following as the major kinds of variables:
2. DEPENDENT VARIABLES – those that depend on the independent variables; they are
the outcomes or results of the influence of the independent variable. That is why it is also
called outcome variable.
EXAMPLE: A study is on the relationship of study habits and academic performance of
UTNHS senior high school students. ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE is the dependent variable
because it is depending on the study habits of the students; if the students change their
study habit the academic performance also change.
DV IV DV
I. Identification. Identify the variables and the constant in each title of study presented below.
Determine the independent and dependent variable; then determine whether discrete or continuous
variable.
FOR EXAMPLE: A study on the relationship of study habits and academic performance of BSU college
students.
CONSTANT VARIABLES
INDEPENDENT DISCRETE/ DEPENDENT DISCRETE/
CONTINOUS CONTINOUS
BSU COLLEGE ACADEMIC
STUDY HABITS DISCRETE DISCRETE
STUDENTS PERFORMANCE
CONSTANT VARIABLES
INDEPENDENT DISCRETE/ DEPENDENT DISCRETE/
CONTINOUS CONTINOUS
1.
2.
3.
5.
6.
7.
8.