What Are The Three Approaches to Research
The three common approaches to conducting research are quantitative and mixed methods. The researcher anticipates the type of data needed to respond to the research question.
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- Qualitative research is based on aconstructivist or naturalist approach andbegan as a countermovement to thepositivist paradigm (Creswell, 1994)
- Designs
- Ethnographies
- Grounded theory
- Case studie
- Phenomenological studies

- Based on the empiricist traditionestablished by such authorities as Comte,Mill, Durkheim, Newton and Locke (Smith,1983; Creswell, 1994).
- methodologies
- experiment
- survey
- independent variables:
- Biological events
- Social environments
- Hereditary factors

- the mixing of quantitative and qualitativemethodologies is a possibility in any givenstudy.
- • Involve the use of observation to addressresearch questions. Both methodologies"describe their data, construct explanatoryarguments
- From their data, and speculate about whythe outcomes they observed happened asthey did"
- Use techniques that are relativelyanalogous at some level of specificity, suchas triangulation.
- Try to discover meaning from theinterpretation of data.
- Use analytical techniques in an attempt toexplain complex relationships in the socialscience world
- Utilize techniques to verify their data.
- Use data reduction as an important part ofthe data analysis process.
- Promote the role of theory by testingtheory (quantitative methods) or initiatingand building theory (qualitative methods).
- Can use the same collection of data to getresults