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INQUIRY
Introduction to Quantitative
Research
BASIC RESEARCH
• Applied Research
• Action Research
• Developmental Research
No Yes No Yes
Correlational Design
(Factor- relating) Experimental Design
Psychological
Increases knowledge of humans
Describe, understand, predict and control
(Clark-Carter, 2004)
Social Research
Growth
Equity
Justice
(Singh, 2007)
Science
- discovery of new phenomena and their integration into
coherent conceptual models of major physical or biological
systems.
Engineering
- discovery and systematic conceptual structuring of knowledge to
develop, design, produce or construct, and operate devices,
structures, machines, and systems of economic and societal
value.
(0, 1, 2,3)
2.5 is not meaningful
Soap is the
independent
variable
Amount of
germs is the
dependent
variable