Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Understanding Educational Theory and Practice

Quantitative and Qualitative research methodologies are grounded in different philosophical worldviews (Nagy, 2015). Quantitative research focuses on measuring and counting numerical data (Creswell & Poth, 2018). It is often associated with a positivist worldview (Nagy, 2015), which assumes that reality exists independently of human perception and that objective facts can be discovered (Creswell & Poth, 2018). The ontology of positivism…

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