{"id":3287,"date":"2016-11-01T04:03:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/research-methods\/?page_id=3287"},"modified":"2016-11-01T04:03:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:03:02","slug":"objectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/research-methods\/modules-4-6\/module-4-quantitative-methods\/objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Quantitative_research_methods\">Quantitative research methods<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When people think of research, they usually think numbers.  lots of numbers.   This kind of research is usually more structured, and involves\n<\/p>\n<p>This learning pathway examines <b>quantitative<\/b> data, and also mixed-methods, which combine quantitative and qualitative data.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"objectives\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/research-methods\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_objectives.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Objectives<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quantitative research methods:\n<ul>\n<li> Identify different types of quantitative data used in political science\n<\/li>\n<li> Understand various aspects of quantitative research methods: descriptive, correlation, predictive.\n<\/li>\n<li> Learn to display categorical data\n<\/li>\n<li> Identify problems appropriate for quantitative research methods\n<\/li>\n<li> Identify strengths and weaknesses of quantitative research methods\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mixed methods:\n<ul>\n<li> Learn the logic behind mixed methods research methods\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.016 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.017 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 104\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 778\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 2451\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1000\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:171008-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20161101040256 and revision id 987820\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/research-methods\/modules-1-3\/module-3-research-design\/case-study-design\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/research-methods\/modules-4-6\/module-4-quantitative-methods\/statistics-exploratory-methods\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantitative research methods When people think of research, they usually think numbers. lots of numbers. 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