Research Designs

Reflection 4(i)

The previous lesson was on research methodologies. On the very basis, I do understand how each research methodologies function and the different purpose of the methodologies, thanks to the Introduction to Research course during our degree years.

If I were asked whether I am more comfortable doing a quantitative research or qualitative research, I would say that I am definitely more comfortable doing a quantitative research. I am saying this for two reasons:

1. I am a more technical person in the sense that I want facts and figures more than my own observation.
2. My research for my degree was quantitative in nature and I am quite familiar on how to discuss my findings when it is quantitative rather than qualitative. Even though I am a TESL student, I tend to like numbers better, for some reason.

As for the methodology, definitely my attention was more on my planned research which will be using the experimental research. I am a bit worried on how I am going to carry out the research due to several factors:

1. I am afraid that I might not teach the subject that I am researching on, and thus I will have issues in executing the intervention (strategy training).
2. I have never done a research using experimental methodology, therefore, I am still figuring out on how to avoid having other factors influencing my results - extraneous variable. I have yet to figure out on how to control that.