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QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH: Importance, Characteristics, Strengths, Weaknesses, and Kinds  Importance of Quantitative Research Across Fields to improve or enhance ways of doing things to disprove or provide a new hypothesis to find answers to questions or solutions to...

QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH: Importance, Characteristics, Strengths, Weaknesses, and Kinds  Importance of Quantitative Research Across Fields to improve or enhance ways of doing things to disprove or provide a new hypothesis to find answers to questions or solutions to problems in daily life. 1. EDUCATION 2. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 3. ANTHROPOLOGY 4. COMMUNICATION 5. SPORTS MEDICINE 6. PSYCHOLOGY 7. BUSINESS 8. SOCIAL INQUIRY Quantitative research can be used to improve marketing strategy, to assess approaches that will help companies in their decision – making practices and solicit consumer’s opinion for productivity. ANSWER: BUSINESS Example. The Impact of Reward and Recognition Programs on Employee’s Motivation and Satisfaction: An Empirical Study by Ali, R., & Ahmed, M.S. ( 2009) 1. EDUCATION 2. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 3. ANTHROPOLOGY 4. COMMUNICATION 5. SPORTS MEDICINE 6. PSYCHOLOGY 7. BUSINESS 8. SOCIAL INQUIRY Quantitative research can be used to better understand the behavior and social interactions among individuals. ANSWER: SOCIAL INQUIRY Conditional Cash Transfer: An assessment of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program’s Human Capital Investment Toward Alleviating Poverty by Salcedo, Reynaldo (2013) 1. EDUCATION 2. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 3. ANTHROPOLOGY 4. COMMUNICATION 5. SPORTS MEDICINE 6. PSYCHOLOGY 7. BUSINESS 8. SOCIAL INQUIRY Experimental research on effective medicines, vaccines and other drugs to cure specific sickness or illness, level of satisfaction on the services rendered by employees in the hospital and the rate of recovery, to examine the trends and tendencies in the use of information technology. ANSWER: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Example. Shrimp Exoskeleton: Potential Additive in the Production of Biodegradable Plastic by Almera Coleen E. Agulan, et. al, (2015) 1. EDUCATION 2. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 3. ANTHROPOLOGY 4. COMMUNICATION 5. SPORTS MEDICINE 6. PSYCHOLOGY 7. BUSINESS 8. SOCIAL INQUIRY It is concerned with exploring connections simultaneously, amidst cultural differences, alternatives and identity. ANSWER: ANTHROPOLOGY 1. EDUCATION 2. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 3. ANTHROPOLOGY 4. COMMUNICATION 5. SPORTS MEDICINE 6. PSYCHOLOGY 7. BUSINESS 8. SOCIAL INQUIRY Quantitative research can be used to measure the student’s performance, to assess the effectiveness of the teacher's teaching style & strategy and level of satisfaction towards different programs implemented in the school. ANSWER: EDUCATION Task – Based Language Teaching and Its Effect on Second Language Acquisition on College Freshman Students by Go, Bernard (2010) 1. EDUCATION 2. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 3. ANTHROPOLOGY 4. COMMUNICATION 5. SPORTS MEDICINE 6. PSYCHOLOGY 7. BUSINESS 8. SOCIAL INQUIRY Researchers are often interested in how an understanding of a particular communication phenomenon might generalize to a larger population. For example, researchers can advance questions like “What Effect do punitive behavioral control statements have on a classroom? What communicative behaviors are associated with different stages in romantic relationships? What communicative behaviors are used to respond to co-workers displaying emotional stress? (Allen, Titsworth, Hunt, 2009) ANSWER: COMMUNICATION 1. EDUCATION 2. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 3. ANTHROPOLOGY 4. COMMUNICATION 5. SPORTS MEDICINE 6. PSYCHOLOGY 7. BUSINESS 8. SOCIAL INQUIRY Quantitative research is used to analyze how sports may be used as an alternative way of medicating an illness. An example is the research done by University of Eastern Finland which investigated the relationship between mushrooming of fast food chains and obesity, as well as the intervention needed to prevent children’s obesity from reaching serious proportions. ANSWER: SPORTS MEDICINE 1. EDUCATION 2. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 3. ANTHROPOLOGY 4. COMMUNICATION 5. SPORTS MEDICINE 6. PSYCHOLOGY 7. BUSINESS 8. SOCIAL INQUIRY Quantitative psychologists study and develop the methods and techniques used to measure human behavior and other attributes. Their work involves the statistical and mathematical modeling of psychological processes, the design of research studies and the analysis of psychological data. ANSWER: PSYCHOLOGY