Exam 17: Mixed Research

Carly is planning her master's thesis. She is interested in understanding the experiences of a small group of first year elementary school teachers. Which type of research design would be best for her to use?

Dr. Shaw conducted a mixed methods research study with the purpose of seeking to extend the breadth and range of inquiry by using different methods for different inquiry components. What is the formal name for this purpose?

Dr. McLean conducted a mixed methods research study with the purpose of using the results from one method to help develop or inform the other method, where development is broadly construed to include sampling and implementation, as well as measurement decisions. What is the formal name for this purpose?

A strength of qualitative research is being able to collect data from many participants in a relatively short period of time.

What is this rationale for mixed research: Seeks the discovery of paradox and contradiction, new perspectives of frameworks, and the recasting of questions or results from one method with questions or results from the other method?

Mike is providing a rationale for his use of a mixed methods design by indicating that he seeks convergence, corroboration, and correspondence of results from different methods. What purpose for using mixed methods is he using?

Because mixed research involves expertise in qualitative and quantitative research design, several books suggest having multiple researchers involved in mixed research studies.

Online journals, book chapters, and breaking the research report into separate partial reports are the ways though which mixed methods researchers sometimes get around the problem that their research reports tend to be longer than monomethod studies.

In order to select one of the mixed method research designs, the researcher must answer questions about:

Lack of matching to local conditions is a limitation of which research methodology?

A strength of qualitative research is being able to understand individual's experiences and interpretations of constructs.

What procedure involves converting quantitative data into narrative representations that can be analyzed qualitatively?

The identification of contextual variables is a strength of which research methodology?

Which of the following statements does NOT represent a purpose for mixed research?

In a quantitatively driven mixed design:

Define mixed research (i.e., it is also called mixed methods research).

What procedure involves converting qualitative data into numerical codes and then using statistical analysis techniques with the data?

Which of the following is not one of the mixed methods research designs provided in the book's typology of designs?

A researcher interviews students to find out their experiences in an educational research class and later constructs a frequency distribution that shows the number of times words such as anxiety or fun were used during the interviews. This is known as:

A researcher wanted to understand why so many high school freshmen were failing mathematics. She first conducted in-depth interviews with 10 participants and then used this information to construct a structured questionnaire to be administered to a random sample of freshmen. This is an example of: