Week 10 - Mixed Methods Flashcards
what is mix-methods research
RESEARCH IN WHICH THE INVESTIGATOR COLLECTS AND ANALYZES DATA, INTEGRATES THE FINDINGS, AND DRAWS INFERENCES USING BOTH QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES OR METHODS IN A SINGLE STUDY OR PROGRAM OF INQUIRY
what is meta inference
THE CONCLUSION GENERATED BY INTEGRATING INFERENCES FROM THE RESULTS OF THE QUANTITATIVE + QUALITATIVE STUDY
what is pragmatism paradigm
The research question should drive the inquiry and
…the question is more important than the method”
(usually at least 2 research questions are involved)
what are the advantages to mixed methods research
- complimentarity
- practicality
- incrementality
- enhanced validity
- collaboration
what is complementarity
Promoting the “best of both worlds”: qualitative and quantitative research methods
what is practicality
Researchers can ask questions that cannot be studied using only one method
what is incrementality
Allows for use of feedback loops
what is enhanced validity
Support for a model or hypothesis from complementary data
what is collaboration
Combines expert methodology researcher talents; Very difficult to find someone who is an expert at both methods
what are the disadvantages of mixed methods research
Requires a researcher to be competent in both methods: methodologically bilingual
All members of the team need this dual-method expert skill set
Expensive
Mixed methods studies may be of longer duration than single method studies
what is the purpose of mixed methods research
- Use MM when there are conflicts in the research and don’t quite understand all that is going on
- Concepts new and poorly understood
- Neither qualitative nor quantitative approach adequate alone
- Enhanced with second source of data
- Quantitative results difficult to interpret
- Theoretical approach requires both methods
- Multiphase project is required to attain key objectives
explain the application of mixed methods
- Instrument developmental work: qualitative data may be useful for item generation for quantitative instruments
- Intervention development: relationship here with evidence-based practice that takes into account the patient’s, caregiver’s, etc., perspectives
- Hypothesis generation and testing: may be done through a coordinated set of studies
- Explication: helps researchers see why variables are related
- Theory building, testing, and refinement helps theories to escape disconfirmation
what are some considerations when it comes to mixed methods
- sequencing (what are you going to do first)
- prioritization
- integration
explain the consideration sequencing
Sequential: one before the other
Concurrent: at the same time
explain prioritization as a consideration
Equal
Dominant
explain integration as a consideration
Data collection
Data analysis
Interpretation
what are the three designs of mixed methods
- convergent (parallel)
- explanatory
- exploratory (3 phased approach)
+ indicates which design
convergent
-> indicated which design
sequential
what do capital letters indicate
priory strand of study
what do lower case letters indicate
non-dominant strand of study
what is an explanatory design
always have quantitative strand first
When you think you understand a phenomenon but want to understand it a different way, so asking the participants how they feel
what is a exploratory design
always have qualitative strand first
When you don’t understand the phenomenon
what does QUAL/quan mean
qualitative approach is dominant
