NU560-HERZING UNIVERSITY-Research Methods and Evidence-Based Practice-Unit 2 Discussion 1-Research Design
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| CODE | UNIVERSITY | WORDS COUNT | REFERENCE |
| NU560 | HERZING UNIVERSITY | 300 | APA |
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1) Compare and contrast qualitative and quantitative research designs. Think about this in terms of methodology and outcome.
2) If you were to actually conduct your own research study, would your selected evidence-based practice problem/topic lend itself to a qualitative or quantitative design? Describe specifics around the topic to support your findings.
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The quantitative research methods consist of statistics, scientific experiments, numerical data, surveys, and structured observation, quantitative research is concrete, objective, and measured. A quantitative study can be replicable by anyone, as it doesn’t require any personalized interpretation, the research projects are guided by research questions and hypotheses. The purpose of a qualitative is to examine the relationship between variables (Queirós, Faria & Almeida, 2017). A Variable is a characteristic that can be of three type’s independent variable, dependant variable, extraneous.