South University Online Quantitative Research Methods Discussion

Description

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates' initial postings. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Cite sources in your responses to other classmates. Complete your participation for this assignment by the end of week.

This week, you learned about the methods of quantitative and qualitative research for surveys and questionnaires. Based upon what you have learned, discuss the following:

Evaluate and describe the difference between open-ended and forcedchoice questions.

Analyze and explain the different models for quantitative and qualitative research.

Analyze and describe which method is easiest to code and perform a statistical analysis and why. Use your proposal topic in response to this question.