Nomkhosi Nkomo St10122214 Iner7411 Take Home Test
Nomkhosi Nkomo St10122214 Iner7411 Take Home Test
Nomkhosi Nkomo St10122214 Iner7411 Take Home Test
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QUESTION 1
Q.1.1. The next step would be choosing an approach. Working on an important
research project might need careful planning. Designing your overall research
structure is a key step in ensuring that you use your time wisely. During this step, you
can decide what resources you are going to use to expand your understanding, as
well as any sources of data or experiments needed to better enlighten you and assist
you achieve the right conclusion (Du Plooy-Cilliers, Davis & Bezuidenhout, 2017).
Q.1.2. It is a quantitative research design, firstly the research is focused on the
teacher’s personal experiences in accommodating children who present with barriers
to learning in a mainstream mathematics classroom. According to Du Plooy Cilliers
(2017) a Quantitative research design is aimed at discovering how many people think,
act or feel in a specific way. Neuman state that in a quantitative design the researcher
aims to capture all the details of a social setting in a detailed description and conveys
an intimate feeling for the setting and the inner lives of the people in it (2011). Relating
to q.1.2. With this design the researcher can decide which experiments they will use
to better help you in finding an appropriate conclusion.
Q.1.3. The goal of quantitative research is to discover how many people think, act, or
feel in a particular way. Quantitative projects involve large sample sizes, concentrating
on the quantity of responses, as opposed to gaining the more focused or emotional
insight that is the aim of qualitative research.
Q.1.4. Tebogo is doing a research study on teachers’ experiences in accommodating
children who present with barriers to learning in a mainstream mathematics classroom
and we already know that a quantitative design is aimed at discovering how many
people think, act or feel in a specific way, and in this case the similarities would be that
Tebogo’s focus is investigating or researching the teacher’s personal experiences,
therefore this design is suitable for her study because it has data set, all the information
from the different individual teachers across researched is collected and from this
collected information Tebogo will be able to make certain predictions and provide the
teachers with advice on how to improve a classroom with such a group of children.
QUESTION 2
Q.2.1. It is Empirical analytical sciences. Because the conclusions of Tebogo’s study
are derived from concrete, verifiable evidence (du Plooy-Cilliers, Davis &
Bezuidenhout, 2014).
Q.2.2. Positivism:
It examines causal relationships to control, predict and manipulate them
It values quantitative data and an objective and universal truth
A positivist only considers observable, and verifiable facts and should be considered
when attempting to understand and explain natural and social phenomena ((du Plooy-
Cilliers, Davis & Bezuidenhout, 2014)). This paradigm best suits Tebogo’s study
because its basic affirmations are that all knowledge regarding matters of fact is based
on the positive data of experience and that beyond the realm of fact is that of pure
logic and pure mathematics ((du Plooy-Cilliers, Davis & Bezuidenhout, 2014)).
Q.2.3. Epistemological position is the study of knowledge, what knowledge is and how it is
generated. It is also a way of understanding and explaining how we know what we know', ((du
Plooy-Cilliers, Davis & Bezuidenhout, 2014)). Epistemology is also 'concerned with providing
a philosophical grounding for deciding what kinds of knowledge are possible and how we can
ensure that they are both adequate and legitimate.
QUESTION 3
Q.3.1.
QUESTION 4
Q.4.1. Perceptions of teachers towards learners who have barriers to learning in a
mathematics classroom: a qualitative study
Q.4.2. How do teachers in a mathematics classroom perceive learners with disabilities in their
classroom?
Q.4.3. The problem is the learners with learning disabilities.
QUESTION 5
Q.5.1) A null hypothesis is a type of conjecture in statistics that proposes that there is no
difference between certain characteristics of a population or data generating process (Hayes,
2023).
Q.5.2) INDEPENDENT VARIABLE: music
DEPENDENT VARIABLE: learners
Alternative hypothesis: how music as a standalone does not enhance learners learning
potential.
Q.5.3. According to Du Plooy Cilliers (2014) dependent variable depends on an independent
variable, while an independent variable depends on external manipulation. For example, when
measuring how the speed of a car will affect the time it will take to reach a certain place, the
time taken (dependant variable) depends on the speed (independent variable).
Q.5.4)
Q.5.5) A Qualitative research design.
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