ABSTRACT
The task of mastering educational research literacy takes time and effort. The real difference between qualitative and quantitative articles is grounded in the different ways that these two approaches to research look at the world of experience. This chapter looks at the ways that quantitative articles look at the world, or what people will call basic quantitative literacy. The ground state of any quantitative article in educational research is its desire to be taken as a scientific piece of research. In other words, a quantitative article is a scientific article. It seeks to be shaped and guided by the basic precepts of the scientific process of research. Public scrutiny is an important part of any form of scientific research. The principles of science and the operation of variables, and especially independent and dependent variables, are at the heart of the quantitative research process in education. Together, they are the key points to the quantitative view of research.
