It also provides insights into the setting of a problem, generating ideas and/or hypotheses. The aim is a complete detailed, description of what is observed, and the purpose is contextualisation, interpretation, and understanding perspectives. The researcher is the data gathering instrument and the data collection is unstructured. The sample is usually a small number of non-representative cases. Respondents selected on their experience.
It provides the background that supports your investigation and offers the reader a validation for your study of a particular research problem. According to Creswell (2009), it includes the variables you intend to measure and the relationships you seek to apprehend.
Delimitations factors includes the choices of objective ,research questions , perspective that you adopted, variables of interests and population you choose to investigate. The problem of choice that one chooses is the first delimitation itself. This means you had other related problems that you could have chosen but decide to screen them off and took one from many. PERSONAL ASPECT Delimitations as one the concepts in research are of vital purpose. It guides you so that you don’t derail from what you intend to do it explains or defines on why you carrying on such a study so that one does not lose track of its purpose.
Some argue that it useful only as an exploratory tool and nothing more. However researchers continue to use case study research methods with success regardless the criticisms accorded to it. The characteristics of a case study research A case study method of research does not really need to be long, they can range from a few paragraphs to few pages depending on the question being studied. They can either be real life issues or fictitious. There is usually a dilemma that needs to be resolved, with some information missing and solutions must be within the control of the protagonist.
Particularly interesting in the view of this study, is the fact that thematic analysis is firmly anchored in constructionist method which examines the ways in which events, realities, meanings, experiences and so on are the effects of a range of discourses operating within society. The study collected both qualitative and quantitative data and these were analysed differently. The quantitative data were analysed using - graphs, pie chart and tables. This was done with the Statistical Package for Social Scientist (SPSS) software. Qualitative analysis involved taking the responses from the respondents, sometimes verbatim to confirm or negate what has been observed from the other
Some argue that it useful only as an exploratory tool and nothing more. However researchers continue to use case study research methods with success regardless the criticisms accorded to it. The characteristics of a case study research A case study method of research does not really need to be long, they can range from a few paragraphs to few pages depending on the question being studied. They can either be real life issues or fictitious. There is usually a dilemma that needs to be resolved, with some information missing and solutions must be within the control of the protagonist.
The appropriate data collection method is focused to gather the required data. In this study, primary and secondary data has been collected by researcher. In primary data, researcher conduct surveys by using questionnaires while in secondary data; researcher conduct information by using online resources such as books, research articles and journal papers. The quantitative method for collecting data through questionnaires will be used to test statistically. The data collected in this research will be quantitative in nature thus; SPSS will be employed to test regression and correlation according to the survey
The questions should be broad and loosely structured, following the intent of the research questions. Next, the interview questions are accompanied by a list of possible sources of data. The literature was revisited between interviews to gain a better understanding of new data. Clear conceptualizations assisted in taking definitions into the study, and combined with the other sources of data, comprised the mass of data available to study the phenomenon of interest. Thinking in metaphors, and creating simplistic models and thematic maps were essential activities in data management.
When interviewing participants, they might be asked about some variables ‘x’ or ’y’ and they give the answer ‘z’ so this will help researchers develop some new hypotheses through the added variable. Even this cannot happen when using statistical approach because they usually analyse already coded data and there are very few chances of identifying new variables like this. Another advantage of using case studies is that they sometimes explore historical cases and give an
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF QUALITATIVE INTERVIEW IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH What is qualitative research? Qualitative research is fundamentally exploratory research. It is utilized to pick up a comprehension of basic reasons, assessments, and inspirations. It gives experiences into the issue or creates thoughts or speculations for potential quantitative research. Qualitative Research is additionally used to reveal slants in thought and feelings, and jump further into the issue.