Exam 5: Mixed Methods Research

In ______ design, the researcher initially uses a quantitative approach followed by a qualitative approach to explain in depth the results.

______ is the conversion of qualitative data into outcomes or quantitative data.

The greater the qualitative-quantitative parallelism in the study design and its implementation, the more difficult it is to compare and contrast textual and numeric forms of evidence in an integrative manner.

Discuss the purpose of the transformative mixed methods model.

Objectivity in a postpositivism paradigm is not valued.

______ uses quantitative data and results to assist in the interpretation of qualitative findings.

______ mixed method may be used to simultaneously collect data, but one method plays more of a supportive role.

Advocates for the use of quantitative methods believe that qualitative methods have resulted in philosophical "wars."

______ hold that there are potentially a number of different constructed realities and that information is value laden.

______ utilizes one of four designs (explanatory, exploratory, embedded, and convergent) systematically with a purpose of focusing on a marginalized group.

______ involves the use of multiple methods to focus on particular phenomena.

The use of an inductive logic view, with the intent to interpret from the specific to the general is the characteristic of ______.

Research and inquiry not based on personal values is a characteristic of ______.

The introduction of mixed methods research models essentially heated up the significant debates and "wars" over which research method was superior.

A research ______ has been described as a particular set of belief systems that provide a guideline for researchers.

______involves initially using qualitative methods followed by quantitative methods. The purpose is to explain more fully the quantitative methods.

______ mixed method may be used to simultaneously collect data, but is more depth in certain areas.

This research method period______ started in the 1960s and extended to the 1980s. The focus of this period was a beginning attempt to find commonalities between research paradigms and to begin to use mixed methods.

______ involves the use of similar methods of data collection or a within-methods approach such as multiple reviewers interpreting the same data.