ASSIGNMENT | Compare and contrast the information about the procedures and instruments in at least two of the earlier readings to the assigned reading for this week.

Please compare the research method used in previous readings to the article for this week: Pickard (2017). Compare and contrast the information about the procedures and instruments in at least two of the earlier readings to the assigned reading for this week. Use the material you read and viewed about the differences between quantitative and qualitative procedures and instruments to ground your commentary.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

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 The two primary approaches for collecting information include qualitative and quantitative research. Qualitative research mainly involves unquantifiable and non-numerical information and is usually descriptive. Under this research method, the analysis undertaken may be historical, descriptive, evaluation, action, or comparative. Quantitative research, on the other hand, deals with the collection of numerical information. The conclusion is an inference of the collected data. Under this, correlational or experimental methods are conventional. In the article by Pickard (2017), the qualitative research method is dominant, whereby; information is based on a general population (Pickard, 2017). It does not, therefore, involve data that cannot be quantified. In the article by Zarcadoolas et al. (2011), the use of quantitative research is evident. Information such as obesity rates among…