Exam 12: Secondary Data Analysis and Mixed Methods

Census data are reported for what units?

Secondary data analysis involves using prexisting data to answer a different research question that intended by the people who collected the data.

This design involves a series of quantitative and qualitative designs; each design and the findings inform the next phase.

Discuss the views of methodological purists, methodological pluralists, and methodological pragmatists in regards to mixed methods.

Big data is emerging as a way of understanding huge quantities of data.

QUAL + QUAN means that the qualitative design comes first followed by the quantitative design.

It is important to know how missing information was treated because:

Imputed data are often used for missing responses.

Discuss why researchers use mixed methods.

Researchers may choose to use mixed methods when they want to explore new or understudied phenomena and then test findings from the qualitative research.

Secondary data analysis is:

Which one of the following is not an advantage of secondary data analysis?

Creswell (2010) has helped popularize a simple notational system for distinguishing different ways of mixing quantitative and qualitative methods. This system distinguishes the priority given to one method over the other and the sequence in which they are used in a research project. Give two examples of this system.

Two key decisions about mixed-methods designs are:

QUAN means that the design is given priority in importance.

Methodological ________ believe that only qualitative or quantitative methods provide adequate tools for investigating the educational world.

It is impossible to link an individual's responses to the individual when using big data.

The primary method used in a mixed-methods project is written as: