In the article “An Introduction to Qualitative Research” definitions were given for both quantitative research and qualitative research and it was also very easy to follow the bullets listed within the article. I feel the easiest way to remember the difference between the two is to remember the questions that each should follow. Qualitative research should answer why? How? And in what way? Whereas quantitative research answers the questions how much? How many? How often? And to what extent?
Qualitative interviews are only slightly or totally unstructured and qualitative interviews are formal, but our assignment sheet I believe that we will be doing our own interviews and I am sure that they will be more towards qualitative rather than quantitative.
In Chandinin’s article “Situating Narrative Inquiry”, it is explained that narrative inquiry that there are four turns towards a narrative; (1) a change in the relationship between the person conducting the research and the person participating as the subject (the relationship between the researcher and the researched), (2) a move from the use of number toward the use of words as data, (3) a change from a focus on the general and universal toward the local and specific, and finally (4) a widening in acceptance of alternative epistemologies or ways of knowing (page 7). I feel as if this ties into our Twitterive projects because we have had to conduct some sort of research and information was analyzed before we jumped right in to the Twitterive assignment.
Qualitative interviews are only slightly or totally unstructured and qualitative interviews are formal, but our assignment sheet I believe that we will be doing our own interviews and I am sure that they will be more towards qualitative rather than quantitative.
In Chandinin’s article “Situating Narrative Inquiry”, it is explained that narrative inquiry that there are four turns towards a narrative; (1) a change in the relationship between the person conducting the research and the person participating as the subject (the relationship between the researcher and the researched), (2) a move from the use of number toward the use of words as data, (3) a change from a focus on the general and universal toward the local and specific, and finally (4) a widening in acceptance of alternative epistemologies or ways of knowing (page 7). I feel as if this ties into our Twitterive projects because we have had to conduct some sort of research and information was analyzed before we jumped right in to the Twitterive assignment.
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