Quantitive research is effectively research with numbers. Those numbers could be test grades. They could be scores on some attitude inventory.
They could really be any kind of objective measure of reality. The really nice thing about quantitive research is it gives us a toolbox of analyses we can use with our data to understand the conclusions of it. We could, for example, compare the means of two different groups to see if one outperformed another on some task.
We could analyze how a group of students performed after getting some intervention from us to see if some measure of their performance improved. So the nice thing about quantitative research is it has a suite of tools we can use to create easy-to-understand, easy-to-defend conclusions about our research. Now two places we get a lot of quantitative data for quantitative research are controlled experiments and survey results.
But those aren't the only two places. So here we'll talk about the different places we can get quantitative data for this kind of research and some of the different analyses we can use to process this research.
