Mixed Methods

What is mixed methods research?

• Mixed methods research is an approach in which the researcher collects, analyses and interprets both quantitative and qualitative data, integrates the two approaches in various ways and frames the study within a specific design

• Mixed methods research is an approach in which the researcher collects, analyses and interprets both quantitative and qualitative data.

• Mixed methods research is an approach in which the researcher collects, analyses and interprets both quantitative and qualitative data and frames the study within a specific design in favour of qualitative approaches.

• Mixed methods research is an approach in which the researcher collects, analyses and interprets both quantitative and qualitative data and integrates the two approaches in various ways

Mixed methods research enables you to address a range of confirmatory and exploratory questions, using quantitative and qualitative approaches, and therefore verify and generate theory in the same study is referred to as___.

• Complementarity

• Completeness

• Resolution of complex issues

• Enrichment

Greater insight into divergent views and perspectives that are multifaceted is referred to as ___.

• Enrichment

• Flexibility

• Triangulation

• Completeness

What philosophies beyond pragmatism have emerged in mixed methods research?

• Dialectic pluralism

• Constructivism

• Postpositivism

• Transformative worldview

What are the basic methods in mixed methods research?

• Convergent

• Embedded intervention

• Explanatory sequential

• exploratory sequential

Mixed methods data can be analysed using the following software packages___.

• NVivo

• SPSS

• Strata

• MAXQDA