Educational Psychology / Unit 2 EDP 0105 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Quantitative and Qualitative Research
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The idea
Quantitative research gathers a little data from many people and uses statistics to reach general conclusions; qualitative research gathers rich data from few people, describing lived experience.
In practice
A survey of two thousand students, set beside long interviews with ten of them.
Where people slip
Quantitative work is precise but poor at raising new questions; qualitative work is good at generating hypotheses.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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