IMPORTANCE OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS.docx

**IMPORTANCE OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS** ***Why quantitative research is important?*** Research Marketing, Inc., 2018) In addition, people do research because there is a must to identify the problems of the deteriorating quality of the community as a whole. By doing so, they can be...

**IMPORTANCE OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ACROSS FIELDS** ***Why quantitative research is important?*** Research Marketing, Inc., 2018) In addition, people do research because there is a must to identify the problems of the deteriorating quality of the community as a whole. By doing so, they can be addressed systematically and actual decisions are assured to be sound. In many cases, innovative teaching strategies, great inventions, and empirical interventions for community progress are product of researches. In the context of senior high school program, quantitative research provides benefits in its fields for the senior high school learners. In the area of **Accounting, Business, and Management (ABM):** 1\. Student researchers can design new marketing strategies to improve product and services. It can help ensure that the development of product is truly anchored to the demand. 3\. It determines customers' preferences, helps establish the most feasible location, delivers quality goods and services, analyzes what the competitors are doing, and finds ways on how to continuously satisfy the growing and varied needs of the clients. In the field of **Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM):** 1. 2. 3. For engineers, architects, and other builders, results of quantitative research can help develop new structural designs, which are fitted to the current trends, and these can as well contribute to have efficient results in the field of construction In the field of **Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS):** 1\. Quantitative research may provide solutions to the social problem directly felt by the people. 2\. Researches in this field deal more on societal behaviors and social issues such as stress, work ethics, organizational commitment, leadership style, child labor, teenage pregnancy, human trafficking, to drug addiction and other forms of criminality. 3\. Social Science researches help understand the social interactions that may lead the formulations of a new theory and practices that contribute to societal development and welfare. In general, quantitative research can help understand and evaluate or assess the things around us. Thus, it provides explanations and justification for decisions and actions. Finally, it gives opportunity to discover different means of identifying problems in the society and providing effective solutions to the identified problem. (Babbie, 2012). **Kinds of Variables** **1. Independent** **Variables (IV)** are those that are suspected of being the cause in a causal relationship. If you are asking a cause and effect question, your IV will be the variable (or variables if more than one) that you suspect causes the effect. **There are two types** **of Independent** **Variable:** **Active independent** **variables**-are interventions or conditions that are being applied to the participants. A special tutorial for the third graders, a new therapy for clients, or a new training program being tested on employees would be active IVs. **Attribute** **independent** **variables-**are intrinsic characteristics of the participants that are suspected of causing a result. For example, if you are examining whether gender---which is intrinsic to the participants--- results in higher or lower scores on some skill, gender is an attribute IV. **Independent Variables** are usually called predictor or criterion variable. It is known as the **CAUSE**. **2. Dependent Variables (DV)** are those that are influenced by the independent variables. If you ask, \"Does A cause \[or predict or influence or affect, and so on\] B?\" then B is the dependent variable (DV). **Dependent** **Variables (DV)** are variables that depend on or are influenced by the independent variables. **Dependent** **Variables (DV)** are outcomes or results of the influence of the independent variable. **Extraneous Variables** **(EV)** can be age, gender, or personality traits may suddenly surface to create effects on the relationship of the two basic variables (IV & DV). **Intervening variable** is a kind of extraneous variable that directly establishes the link between IV and DV. It is the primary cause of the change in DV. There is a special class of extraneous variables called **confounding variables**. Confounding variables can affect how IV acts on DV, which can lead to a false result or effect on DV. ***POST TEST:*** Directions: Identify the type of variable described/defined in the given statements. Write your answers on the space provided before each number. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_1. It is a variable that is considered as a cause in a causal relationship. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_2. It is a variable that is influenced by the independent variables. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_3. A variable that can be age, gender, or personality traits may suddenly surface to create effects on the relationship of the two basic variables (IV & DV). \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_4. A variable can affect how IV acts on DV, which can lead to a false result or effect on DV. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_5. A variable that refers to the moods, or intelligence of the subject. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_6. A variable that pertains to nature of the place: smelly, chilly, cold, hot, spacious, and the like. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_7. These are interventions or conditions that are being applied to the participants. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_8. are intrinsic characteristics of the participants that are suspected of causing a result. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_9. It refers to the "changing qualities or characteristics" of person or things like age, gender, intelligence, ideas, achievements, confidence, etc. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_10. It is a kind of extraneous variable that directly establishes the link between IV and DV. It is the primary cause of the change in DV.