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KEY FEATURES: Exemplary published studies illustrate concepts in mixed methods so readers have a better sense of how principles can be applied in real research situations. A unique section addresses assessing the quality of mixed methods research and the challenge of reporting to help students evaluate the quality of their own studies as well as published studies. Engaging and creative use of the architectural arch as a metaphor for mixed methods research provides a vehicle that communicates the principle that the integration of approaches is essential to the purpose of a project. Chapter-ending questions for classroom activities are linked across chapters, allowing instructors to envision a series of interlinked assignments leading to a final project.
Controversies and Future Directions
Controversies and Future Directions
Principal Purposes of the Chapter
- To offer a way to conceptualize the priority of the qualitative, quantitative, and mixing strands of a mixed methods study by using inferences and meta-inferences
- To address ongoing controversies about mixed methods, including by challenging the assumption that mixed methods research is simply a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches
In the preceding chapters, I have returned on a number of occasions to the metaphor of the architectural arch as a way to conceptualize design features of mixed methods research. In this use of the metaphor, one arm of the arch visualizes the qualitative data and methods and the second arm visualizes the quantitative data and methods. The keystone at the apex of ...
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