Professor Parsnip wants to know more about the mental process students go through as they learn about research methods. She also wants to know which instructional methods are most effective for teaching research methods to her students. Assume that Professor Parsnip decides to take a quantitative approach to studying these questions. State a specific research question related to her general
research problem that lends itself well to a quantitative research approach. Then explain why your question is better addressed using a quantitative, rather than a qualitative, methodology.
What will be an ideal response?
Suitable research questions will do one or more of the following:
• Represent variables of interest as a score or numeric index
• Utilize descriptive and parametric statistics to analyze data
• Intend, at least implicitly, to draw conclusions of a general category of people beyond the immediate sample
Suitable research questions will NOT rely solely on
• Creating rich descriptions of the phenomena of interest
• Deep understand of multiple perspectives on a single phenomena
• Deep understanding of the participants' point of view.
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