5 Methodological Issues in Conducting Mixed Methods Research Designs

2014 ◽  
pp. 66-83 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Research Designs

Poetry and Mixed Methods Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
Mandy M. Archibald ◽  
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Hermeneutic Circle ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
Poetic Representation

Integration—or the meaningful bringing together of different data sets, sampling strategies, research designs, analytic procedures, inferences, or the like—is considered by many to be the hallmark characteristic of mixed methods research. Poetry, with its innate capacity for leveraging human creativity, and like arts-based research more generally, which can provide holistic and complexity-based perspectives through various approaches to data collection, analysis, and representation, can offer something of interest to dialogue on integration in mixed methods research. Therefore, in this editorial, we discuss and promote the use of poetry in mixed methods research. We contend that the complexities and mean-making parallelisms between poetry and mixed methods research render them relevant partners in a quest to complete the hermeneutic circle whose origin represents experiences, phenomena, information, and/or the like. We advance the notion that including poetic representation facilitates the mixed methods research process as a dynamic, iterative, interactive, synergistic, integrative, holistic, embodied, creative, artistic, and transformational meaning-making process that opens up a new epistemological, theoretical, and methodological space. We refer to this as the fourth space, where the quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, and poetic research traditions intersect to enable different and deeper levels of meaning making to occur. We end our editorial with a poetic representation driven by a word count analysis of our editorial and that synthesizes our thoughts regarding the intersection of poetry and mixed methods research within this fourth space—a representation that we have entitled, “Dear Article.”

Using a Narrative Approach to Analyze Longitudinal Mixed Methods Data

2020 ◽  
pp. 155868982095323
Author(s):  
Maureen R. Waller ◽  
Lenna Nepomnyaschy ◽  
Daniel P. Miller ◽  
Meaghan Mingo
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Fragile Families ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Longitudinal Survey Data ◽  
Research Designs

Despite growing interest in longitudinal mixed methods research designs, more strategies for analyzing and integrating these data are needed. This article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by presenting a novel narrative approach to data analysis in longitudinal studies. Our approach involves the transformation of longitudinal survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study into narrative case histories. We use qualitative interviews from participants in an embedded study to select survey variables for data transformation and to explain unexpected survey outcomes. Our analysis shows how multiple factors converge to enable or constrain fathers’ involvement with children in five different fathering trajectories, and how the narrative frames of some disadvantaged fathers may facilitate their sustained involvement.

scholarly journals Mixed-Methods Design in Biology Education Research: Approach and Uses

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. rm5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdi-Rizak M. Warfa
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Single Method

Educational research often requires mixing different research methodologies to strengthen findings, better contextualize or explain results, or minimize the weaknesses of a single method. This article provides practical guidelines on how to conduct such research in biology education, with a focus on mixed-methods research (MMR) that uses both quantitative and qualitative inquiries. Specifically, the paper provides an overview of mixed-methods design typologies most relevant in biology education research. It also discusses common methodological issues that may arise in mixed-methods studies and ways to address them. The paper concludes with recommendations on how to report and write about MMR.

scholarly journals Multiple Perspectives on Mixing Methods: A Review of Bergman’s Advances in Mixed Methods Research: Theory and Applications

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisaratana Sangasubana
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Quantitative Approaches

More books on mixed methods research have been published recently. One notable contribution to this growing body of work is Bergman’s 2008 Advances in Mixed Methods Research: Theories and Applications. This edited work features contributions by different researchers and addresses a myriad of issues ranging from the need to re-conceptualize the paradigmatic differences between qualitative and quantitative approaches to methodological issues and challenges. This book should prove useful to researchers and graduate students interested in mixed methods designs.

scholarly journals Using Mixed-methods Research in Health & Education in Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 45-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preeti Mahato ◽  
Caterine Angell ◽  
Edwin Van Teijlingen ◽  
Padam P Simkhada
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Pragmatic Research

In the areas of health promotion and health education, mixed-methods research approach has become widely used. In mixed-methods research, also called multi-methods research, the researchers combine quantitative and qualitative research designs in a single study. This paper introduces the mixed-methods approach for use in research in health education. To illustrate this pragmatic research approach we are including an example of mixed-methods research as applied in Nepalese research.Journal of Health Promotion Vol.6 2008, p.45-48

Integration in Mixed Methods Research Designs by Graduate Students at the University of Science and Technology

2022 ◽  
pp. 289-311
Author(s):  
Notice Pasipamire
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
The University

This chapter reports on a study that investigated how graduate students in the Faculty of Communication and Information Science at NUST were approaching integration in their mixed-methods research dissertations. There has been a concern that lack of expertise of what mixed-methods research is restricts the integrative capacity. Using a research synthesis method, the study investigated three graduate programmes, namely Master's degrees in Library and Information Science, Records and Archives Management, and Journalism and Media Studies from 2016 up to 2018. A total of 95 dissertations were reviewed, and 40 employed mixed-methods research design. It was discovered that integration was commonly done at methods and interpretation levels. Integration of qualitative and quantitative data sets resulted in confirmation (83), expanding understanding (27), and discordance (31). Graduate students dealt with discordant findings by either ignoring the discordance (20), seek corroboration with existing literature (7), or give priority to the quantitative strand (4).

The Importance of Qualitative Methods in Mixed Methods Studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 282-306
Author(s):  
Jacquelynne A. Boivin
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Design Models ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods ◽  
Research Designs

This chapter presents a thorough review of the literature dedicated to learning more about mixed methods research design. Explanatory sequential mixed methods studies and exploratory sequential mixed methods studies are the two types of mixed methods research design models that this chapter presents in detail. To contextualize different ideas related to research design, the author provides examples of research studies that exemplify different research designs falling within mixed methods. The main objective of this chapter is to highlight the important role that qualitative research design plays in mixed methods research. Such a presentation of the literature aims to argue that qualitative data substantiates quantitative data as a means to heighten the regard which the qualitative methodology receives.

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