Transcription of Rationale for Qualitative Research
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16 Chapter TwoPROCEDURER ationale for Qualitative ResearchThe underlying purpose of educational Research is the acquisition of new knowledge(Borg & Gall, 1989). Two major approaches dominate educational Research : quantitative andqualitative. Quantitative Research is the inquiry into social or human problems based ontesting a theory composed of variables, measured with numbers, and analyzed with statisticalprocedures, in order to determine whether the predictive generalizations of the theory holdtrue (Creswell, p. 2). In contrast, Qualitative Research is an inquiry process ofunderstanding a social or human problem, based on building a complex, holistic picture,formed with words, reporting detailed views of informants, and conducted in a naturalsetting (Creswell, p.)
Rationale for Qualitative Research The underlying purpose of educational research is the acquisition of new knowledge (Borg & Gall, 1989). Two major approaches dominate educational research: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative research is the inquiry into social or human problems “based on
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