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Subject: 159697 (Seminar III) Activity 2: Sharing Ideas on interesting Issues Proposed: Assit. Prof. Dr. Narumon Yutachom By: Mr.Pinit Khumwong Proposed Date: August 10, 2004. Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Methods Approach Three Elements of Research Approach What framework exist for designing a research proposal? To develop a proposal, this is an important question for new researchers. Creswell (2003) suggested that from lots of different types and terms in the literature, he focused on three approaches: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approach. The first two has been available for decades, and the last is new and still developing in form and substance. To understand them, we need to consider three framework elements: philosophical assumption about what constitute knowledge claims, general procedures of research called strategies of inquiry, and detailed procedure of data collection, analysis and writing, called methods. For that Creswell (2003) proposed three questions to the design of research: What knowledge claims are being made by the researcher (including a theoretical perspective)? What strategies of inquiry will inform the procedures? What methods of data collection and analysis will be used? Figure 1 Knowledge Claims, Strategies of Inquiry, and Methods Leading to Approaches and the Design Process Knowledge Claims Stating a knowledge claim means that researches start a project certain about how we will learn and what we will learn during our inquiry. They might be called paradigms, philosophical assumptions, epistemologies, ontologies. Philosophically, researchers make claims about what is knowledge (ontology), how we know it (epistemology), what values go into it (axiology), how we write about it (rhetoric), and the process for