Qualitative research

children benefit or are they hindered from the use of computers at school? This question is answered in the article “The Impact of Information Technologies on Preschool Child Development.” By, Svetlana Andelic, Zoran Cekerevac and Nikola Dragovic. The research conducted for this article takes an in depth look at how computer use affects children pedagogically, psychologically, sociologically and medically. Information technologies particularly computers and computer like items, such as smart…

Online shopping has become an important topic for research in the context of fashion consumption. Incorporating interactivity and offering both utilitarian and hedonic values for the online fashion consumer have been noted to be important strategies (McCormick & Livett, 2012). Following themes were considered regarding the behavior of the e-consumer such as consumers’ attitudes toward online stores and shopping, their beliefs, emotional factors, as well as store image and atmosphere (Dennis,…

step back from subjectivism and shifted their perspective into the natural science one, we could then easily argue that qualitative methods can be thought of as being reductionistic when studying jealousy because they do not consider elements which might influence feeling jealous, such as evolutionary mechanisms or human needs or a motivation to attach to others. Equally, qualitative methods might accuse experimental approach of also being reductionistic due to reification of complex human…

need for research that compares the use of concept mapping at various levels of a nurse’s education. More qualitative research is also needed to ensure that concept mapping is introduced and utilized in the most effective way possible. By knowing a student’s perception of a teaching strategy, we are able to learn what will make it a more effective and successful learning tool. Evidence and My Teaching I personally gained a lot of insight about concept mapping and teaching from these research…

Methods In this chapter, I explain why I decided to do a qualitative method as a part of my capstone. As a part of the qualitative approach, a questionnaire survey was developed for participants to provide input on their experiences. Even though quantitative data could have been collected, they do not allow students to express themselves as effectively as a survey would do. Survey questions were sent to outside observers to ensure that the questions being posed to the participants would be…

instructional coaching, the study included quantitative analysis of teacher behaviors based on the five standards of effective pedagogy as well as qualitative results obtained through interviews with teacher participants. Though quantitative results demonstrated increased teacher efficacy among coached teachers during implementation, both quantitative and qualitative results revealed the challenges of sustaining implemented…

And what are their exercise habits? The aim of this research is to discover the attitudes of 17-21 year old female Melbourne university students, towards physical exercise and their exercise habits. To gain these vital insights a standardised survey will be used first to collect quantitative data, which will…

addition to hearing the information read by researchers. Following the completion of the rating scale, the research team recorded and transcribed the brief semi-structured interview with the students and entered the data into NVivo 7 software for data analysis. In addition to student interviews, the researchers conducted focus groups of school staff discussing problem…

application of e-commerce, logistics is becoming necessary. Logistics and the importance of e-commerce are more and more getting people‟s attention, but the relationship between e-commerce and logistics still needs to be explored. The purposes is to research the relationship between e-commerce and logistics in general and in our new hyperlocal startup FlashFetch. Literature The most popular strategy in logistics is to outsource one or more logistics activities/services to 3PL firms (Gibson…

pleased with the simplicity of the directions as well as the length of the study. As stated in the video Exploring Qualitative Methods, “It needs to be long enough to get the necessary information, but not so long that people lose interest” (Film Media Group, 2005). The study provided easy to understand and follow directions, a very appealing aspect. As stated in Conducting Field Research, “If it’s too complex or time-consuming, the recipient may throw it away” (Colorado State University,…