Exam 11: Mixing and Comparing Methods

Some mixed-methods designs begin with a qualitative method to explore a phenomenon and then proceed with a quantitative method for ______ purposes.

What are the "paradigm wars"?

The Multiphase Design

A researcher who accepts an interpretivist philosophy believes that there is a reality that exists apart from our perceptions or interpretations of it.

Combining qualitative and quantitative methods within one research project can strengthen the project's design by enhancing ______.

Sampson and Laub contended that martial attachment and job stability were key factors associated with ______ crime.

This design occurs when the primary method is qualitative or quantitative but the researcher adds the other component to gain additional insight ______ design.

The 2013 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey reported that about 11% of teens between the ages of 12 and 18 had been bullied in the past six months.

In the ethnography in Oakland, California Creswell (2011) conducted participant observation, focus groups, and intensive interviews.

This design involves a series of quantitative and qualitative designs. Each design and its findings inform the next phase ______ design.

What is a Meta-Synthesis? What is a Meta-Analysis? How are they different?

The term mixed methods more specifically indicates that research has combined ______ in an investigation of the same or related research question(s).

What is triangulation? What is its value? Where does the term originate?

Sampson and Laub (1993) contended that martial attachment and job stability were key factors associated with desistance from crime.

Meta-synthesis also requires not just aggregating findings from different qualitative studies but also ______.

The intense debate from the 1970s to the 1990s between social scientists over the value of positivist and interpretivist/constructivist research philosophies is known as the paradigm wars.

What are mixed methods? Why are they used?

In his ethnography in Oakland, California, Victor Rios (2011) conducted participant observation, as well as ______.

Rate each type of design with regard to measurement validity, generalizability, type of causal assertions, and causal validity.

Cresswell and Plano Clark (2011) suggest that the unique feature of this design is that it uses a theoretical perspective with a social justice focus such as feminist research or participatory action research ______ design.