This presentation is an introduction and all about the Positivist and Post-positivist perspective in Educational Research and how these perspectives link to Quantitative Research. Determining a personal research perspective is an important move before deciding on writing the first chapters of a study.

1. QUANTITATIVE
RESEARCH
and

2. for tonight we’re
going to have

3. DEFINITION OF
TERMS

4. DISCUSSION

5. establish
LINKS

6. let’s
BEGIN

7. experience
#1

11. The Law of Gravity

13. experience
#2

18. ?

22. #1
POSITIVIST VIEW

23. Positivism says…
Certain phenomena can be
logically explained by
SCIENTIFIC METHOD

24. #2
POST-
POSITIVIST
VIEW

25. Post-positivism says…
The “truth” is not absolute
and can always be challenged still by the
SCIENTIFIC METHOD

27. THE POSITIVIST
WORLD VIEW

28. factual “positive” knowledge
can be gained through

29. factual “positive” knowledge
can be gained through

31. collects
interprets
data

32. independent
from the study

33. PRINCIPLES OF
POSITIVISM

34. 1
logicofinquiryacross
sciencesisthesame

35. 2
researchshouldaimto
explainandpredict

36. 3
researchshouldbe
empiricallyobservable
viahumansenses

37. 4
scienceis
notthesameas
commonsense

38. 5
Sciencemustbe
value-freeand
itshouldbejudged
onlybylogic

39. SCIENCEAS
UNDERLYINGGROUND
FORPOSITIVISM

41. Science as
deterministic

42. Science as
mechanistic

43. Science uses
methods

44. Science deals with
empiricism

46. uncover&measure
patternsofbehaviour

48. discover the laws
of cause & effect
that determine
behaviour

49. Research should be
detached & objective

51. METHODSUSED
BYPOSITIVISTS

52. QUESTIONNAIRES

53. STRUCTURED
INTERVIEWS

54. Structured
non-participant
observation

55. OFFICIAL
STATISTICS

58. REVIEW

72. NAMASTE

73. REFERENCES

74. REFERENCES

75. REFERENCES

76. IMAGECREDITS

77. CONTACTS