爱尔兰留学生后实证主义研究课程论文

The Quantitative Stand and Post-positivism 定量支架和后实证主义研究

In opposition with the Interpretive the Post-positivist assume that thereis an objective unknown reality which can be discovered, they maintain a distant and impartial position with the object of study to eliminate any possible bias.和后实证主义认为的形式上的目标未知的世界不同，他们对研究对象保持一个遥远的和公正的立场，以消除任何可能出现的偏差。

Post-positivism may be applied to the social world on the assumption that ‘the social world can be studied in the same way as the natural world,that there is a method for studying the social world that is value free, and that explanations of a causal nature can be provided’ (Mertens, 2005, p.8).The Post-positivist paradigm is very frequently associated with deductive or descriptive approaches and delivers a single type of reality, either the hypothesis are rejected or are confirmed.
后实证可应用于社会的世界上的假设自然世界中的相同的方式，可以研究社会世界，有一种方法，用于研究社会世界，是完全免费，并且，解释一个因果关系的性质可以提供“（MERTENS，2005年，第8页）。后实证主义范式非常频繁演绎的或描述性的方法，并提供了一个现实，无论是单一类型的假设被拒绝或确认。

As a consequence from the application of this type of approach the quanti-tative findings in this report are exposed in a formal and objective style whilespace for the researcher own elaborations will be reserved to the conclusionsand recommendation sections. 

Post-positivism, however, relaxes the extreme determinism of positivismby accepting that theories are provisional and that new understandings maychallenge the whole theoretical framework. Table 5.1 shows the differentrole that that the Post-positivist and Interpretivist paradigms play in theresearch and how the final data merger and interpretation will take place ina Pragmatic framework.

Table 5.1: Paradigms predominance in the research designResearch Phases Postpositivism Interpretivism PragmatismQUAL Analysis XQUANT Analysis XResults Compari-son and Interpreta-tionXSource: Adapted from Creswell and Clark (2007, p.24).