Introduction This paper is a critique of two peer-reviewed journals entitled “Proactive personality and job performance: The role of job crafting and work engagement” and “Transformational leadership, job satisfaction, and team performance: A multilevel mediation model of trust”. Summary of journals The first study hypothesises that employees with a proactive personality would craft their own jobs to stay engaged and perform well. The research is important because there is little focus on the
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Changing Perceptions on Inquiry Based Learning in Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers North Carolina State University Changing Perceptions on Inquiry Based Learning in Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers The modern world in which we live is requiring individual citizens to become more equipped with essential 21st century skills. The science classroom is a platform where students can engage in critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills that would enhance their readiness
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topic begins with a short-lived incursion into standards which provide us with a distinct set of lens through which we indicate to view social miracles around us. Next we sharpen the discrepancy between the two major paradigms – reckonable and qualitative approaches – while at the same time admitting that there are perhaps more alterations within each paradigm than there are between them. In other words, they are not polar inverses. In fact elements of both paradigms can be combined to bring about
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two educational research materials, it is evident that there are two research approaches – the qualitative and the quantitative methods displayed. Researchers who employ these two paradigms of research are considered as either qualitative or quantitative researchers. Studies reveal that these researchers at no instance cross into employing another research method into their work. For instance, a qualitative researcher cannot cross into the confines of the quantitative researchers and vice versa. The
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generate qualitative primary data of a high level of validity but a low level of reliability that is empathetic in nature that cannot be generalized as the data is heavily impacted by personal viewpoints and values” (Williams, 2011). Realism: realism is a philosophical approach which relates to scientific enquiry. It is similar to positivism and is more quantitative rather than qualitative.
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by many factors including: faulty questionnaire design; sampling and non – responses errors; biased, questionnaire design & wording; respondent unreliability; ignorance, misunderstanding, or bias, errors in coding, processing & statistical analysis; and faulty interpretation of results. Questionnaire research can be seen as over-reliant on instruments & thus, disconnected from everyday life, with measurement processes creating a spurious /artificial sense of accuracy. Neither are interviews
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Overview of Quantitative vs Qualitative Articles NURS 4000/NURS 4001: Research and Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice March 17, 2015 Overview of Quantitative vs. Qualitative Articles Using two research studies selected from the list of articles provided. I choose A Bundle Strategy Including Patient Hand Hygiene to Decrease Clostridium difficile Infections (2014) and Impact of a Smoking Cessation Educational Program on Nurses' Interventions (2014). The purpose of this paper is to do an
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protect the rights of subjects will be discussed. Also, data collection tool that were used to support the reliability and validity of the study. Data analysis procedures will be discussed and ways they are appropriate for answering the research question or questions, for testing the study hypothesis or hypotheses, and key distinctions between qualitative and quantitative data will be provided to the reader. Finally, in conclusion a summary of the findings, strengths and weakness of the scientific merit
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This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. (January 2012) In the social sciences and life sciences, a case study (or case report) is a descriptive, exploratory or explanatory analysis of a person, group or event. An explanatory case study is used to explore causation in order to find underlying principles.[1][2] Case studies may be prospective (in which criteria are established and cases fitting the criteria are included as they become available)
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Vietnam National University -HCMC International University School of Business Qualitative vs. Quantitative methods – Lê Hoàng Dũng, PhD DIFFERENT TYPES OF RESEARCH Exploratory Descriptive - Undertaken when few or no previous studies exist - Aim: to look for patterns, hypotheses or ideas that can be tested and will form the basis for further research - Typical techniques: observation case studies & reviews of previous related studies & data. - Used to identify and classify the elements or
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