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In that scenario, the three instructors realized there arelimits to the insights they can gain through anonymous counting ofdiscussion posts. The instructors would like to answer twoadditional research questions: (a) How do their students actuallyfeel about the intervention? and (b) How do students view theinfluence of the intervention on their learning inside and outsideof the classroom (if applicable)? In your initial post, compare thecharacteristics of appropriate research designs and recommend aqualitative research design that would facilitate answering theinstructors’ additional questions. Explain the philosophicalparadigm underlying the recommended approach. Evaluate the requiredarticles for this week and describe the assumptions the instructorsmight have to set aside as they enter into a qualitative researchstudy. Be sure to identify any ethical issues that may apply to theresearch. Review the characteristics of the quantitative approachyou described in the Week Two discussion. Explain the ways in whichthe quantitative approach and paradigm differs from the qualitativeapproach and paradigm you have recommended here.

Scenario: Three instructors teach the same online course andhave devised an experimental intervention to improve studentmotivation to actively participate in discussions. The course is acore requirement for all psychology students, and students areassigned to particular sections at random rather than by instructorchoice. The average class size for this particular course is 45students. To get a large enough sample for adequate analysis, theinstructors have decided to include two sections for eachinstructor in the experiment. The first section will serve as thecontrol group (no experimental intervention), and the secondsection will receive the intervention. Anonymous data about thedependent variable will be pooled for the three sections comprisingthe control group and the three sections that receive theintervention. The independent variable is the intervention, whichmay be an incentive such as digital badges or an instructionalintervention involving changing the instructions for the guidedresponse. The dependent variable will be the number of response(not initial) posts per student that exceed two lines of text