STRENGHTS AND

WEAKNESSES OF
QUALITATIVE
RESEARCH

SOUTHERN ISABELA ACADEMY, INC.

Spirituality. Ingenuity. Academism
Charles W. Selby St., Centro 1, San Guillermo, 3308 Isabela Molding the youth since 1967!
Strengths of Qualitative Research
•Basically, its strengths is its capacity to
give rich information about the
respondents.
•Provides in-depth information on
individual cases.
•Unravels complex phenomena
embedded in local context.

SOUTHERN ISABELA ACADEMY, INC.

Spirituality. Ingenuity. Academism
Charles W. Selby St., Centro 1, San Guillermo, 3308 Isabela Molding the youth since 1967!
Strengths of Qualitative Research
•Describes rich phenomena situated in
some exceptional environments.
•Relays subjects’ experiences and
perspectives in unusual details.
•Conveys setting factors related to the
situation of interest.
•Allows flexibility in research-related
processes.
SOUTHERN ISABELA ACADEMY, INC.
Spirituality. Ingenuity. Academism
Charles W. Selby St., Centro 1, San Guillermo, 3308 Isabela Molding the youth since 1967!
Strengths of Qualitative Research
•Enables data to be collected in natural
setting.
•Determines possible causes of a
particular event in another perspective as
that given by quantitative research.
•Permits approaches that are responsive
to local conditions and stakeholders’
needs.
SOUTHERN ISABELA ACADEMY, INC.
Spirituality. Ingenuity. Academism
Charles W. Selby St., Centro 1, San Guillermo, 3308 Isabela Molding the youth since 1967!
Strengths of Qualitative Research
•Presents several options in the conduct
of the research.
•Tolerates shifts in focus based on
research results.
•Accepts unstructured interpretation of
the participants, respecting anything that
is in the participants’ context.

SOUTHERN ISABELA ACADEMY, INC.

Spirituality. Ingenuity. Academism
Charles W. Selby St., Centro 1, San Guillermo, 3308 Isabela Molding the youth since 1967!
 Weaknesses of Qualitative Research
•Data gathering is often time-consuming.
•Analysis of data takes longer than that in
quantitative research.
•Interpretation of results is usually biased
because it is influenced by the researcher’s
perspective.
•Conclusions are not generalizable because the
subjects are few and sometimes possess
unique characteristics compared to typical
respondents.
SOUTHERN ISABELA ACADEMY, INC.
Spirituality. Ingenuity. Academism
Charles W. Selby St., Centro 1, San Guillermo, 3308 Isabela Molding the youth since 1967!