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Experimental (or quantitative) research is more resemblant of scientific, laboratory settings. These methods tend to be more controlled and replicable in future experiments. The cause and effect relationship between variables is seen in this type of research. Therefore, the researcher is depending on that causal relationship that should be at work. This relationship is one aspect where these two types of research differ.

Descriptive research is a form of qualitative research. A teacher can track students through this type of research by supplying surveys or interviewing. To begin our Reading classes each year, we provide our students with a few reading-based surveys. From these we can easily see how the students view reading, their interests and overall view of reading for school or pleasure.



It is because the differing aspects of these two research methods that people opt for a mixed research methodology. In Rodriguez and Toews article, there is discussion around "hidden" curriculum and what should be taught in the classroom and what students receive unknowing instruction on. For example, the research paper. Students develop other skills, like locating information and evaluating a research paper, while writing it. They are not directly instructed on those. However, it is just as important to have the ability to evaluate research as it is to locate the information. Being a "consumer of research," as they labeled students, can be accomplished in a class that is already "practice-focused."



There are different ways of conducting either type of research, as well as different situations where they may be more applicable. However, there are still situations were the combined methodology of each may be more beneficial.