3.2 Research Design
The design of this study is both quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative data
comes from the Likert scale questions on the survey. Qualitative data was collected in
three forms; 1) open-ended questions on the survey 2) one-on-one interviews and 3) the
collection artifacts (any available worksheets or handouts from the classes). This study
had a significant amount of quantitative predetermined questions (26 in total), so it is not
entirely descriptive. It is deductive in nature, as specific reactions to the elements of
Project-based Learning are explored. Decisions were made prior to the start of data
collection, thus making this study leaning towards the analytic side (Seliger & Shohamy,
2008). The data collected are naturalistic as there was no treatment given and there was
no interference with the participants‘ natural behaviours.