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Epistemiology

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Understanding the different types of knowledge and factors which make the information count as knowledge

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8 x Research study aims

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  1. To describe 2. To understand 3. To explain 4. To explore 5. To measure 6. To evaluate 7. To compare 8. To predict
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What are paradigms?

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Our perspective on the world - Belief patterns and assumptions underpinning approaches to research

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Words commonly interchanged with PARADIGMS

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Methodologies, Research Traditions, World Views

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Paradigms in quantitive research

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Positivism / Empericism and Post-positivism. Objectively measured

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Paradigms in qualitative research

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Constructivism and Interpretivism both are subjective.

Critical in social theory.

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Quantitative

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Information or data that is based on quantities obtained using a quantifiable measurement process.

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Qualitative

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Information or records that are descriptive, subjective or difficult to measure quantitively.