Creating and Implementing a Mixed Method Research Study

2016 ◽

pp. 293-302

Author(s):

Mette L. Baran ◽

Janice E. Jones

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Mixed Method ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Research Study ◽

Research Question ◽

Final Report ◽

Mixed Method Research ◽

Research Project ◽

Conducting Research ◽

Core Characteristics

This chapter serves as a guideline for outlining the core characteristics of mixed methods research (MMR) and the various steps researchers undertake in order to conduct a research study. The purpose is to create a worksheet assisting the researcher step by step from beginning to end following the seven steps to conducting research. While the focus is on MMR the steps are similar for any type of research methodology. It is important to note that MMR is not a limiting form of research. Researchers need a MMR question and a mixed methods purpose statement for the research project. This chapter will also help explain why mixed method research is one of the best approaches in answering a research question. Finally, the chapter includes a suggestion to the importance of adding a visual diagram of the MMR into the research project and into the final report.

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Developing the Research Study

Advances in Library and Information Science - Applied Social Science Approaches to Mixed Methods Research ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-1025-4.ch012 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 262-274

Author(s):

Mette L. Baran ◽

Janice E. Jones

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Research Study ◽

Research Question ◽

Final Report ◽

Mixed Method Research ◽

Research Project ◽

The Core ◽

Conducting Research ◽

Core Characteristics

This chapter serves as a guideline for outlining the core characteristics of qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research (MMR) and the various steps researchers undertake in order to conduct a research study. While the focus is on MMR, the steps are similar for any type of research methodology. The purpose is to create a framework assisting the researcher with an outline following the seven steps to conducting research. It is important to note that MMR is not a limiting form of research. Researchers need a mixed method research question and a mixed methods purpose statement for the research project. This chapter will also help explain why MMR is one of the best approaches in answering a research question. Finally, the chapter includes a suggestion to the importance of adding a visual diagram of the mixed methods research project into the research project and into the final report.

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Construct the Logic Model and Research Design (Step 3)

Disaster Evaluation Research ◽

10.1093/med/9780198796862.003.0007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 81-88

Author(s):

Edmund M. Ricci ◽

Ernesto A. Pretto ◽

Knut Ole Sundnes

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Research Design ◽

Mixed Method ◽

Disaster Response ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Research Question ◽

Logic Model ◽

Data Set ◽

Evaluation Team ◽

Mixed Method Design

A ‘mixed-methods’ research design, based upon the categories contained in a disaster response logic model, is suggested as the best approach to capture the complexities of the medical and public health disaster response experience. A mixed-methods design allows the evaluation team to collect and combine data from direct observation, medical records, interviews with victims, health professionals, family and friends of victims, public safety officials, other government and non-governmental officials and from public documents. Validation in a mixed-method design is based upon the concept of triangulation. The term triangulation is used in behavioral research to describe the process of obtaining data from three or more different sources and then comparing the findings to assess consistency across sources. In this design, both qualitative and quantitative data are collected and then merged during the analysis phase. Each data set is used to validate and enhance the other in order to improve the validity of the conclusions reached and the recommendations that follow. However, not all data need be combined. The mixed-method design allows for the analysis of certain types of data separately and then applied to the appropriate research question because there may be no appropriate comparative data.

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Leveraging an Integrated Visual Display for Case-Based Analysis in Mixed Method Research

International Journal of Qualitative Methods ◽

10.1177/16094069211059000 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 160940692110590

Author(s):

Elizabeth G. Creamer

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Mixed Method ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Visual Display ◽

Visual Methods ◽

Mixed Method Research ◽

Analytical Strategy ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Quantitative Results ◽

Case Based

A case-based visual display can serve as method for analysis in mixed method research. This methodological article builds an argument for the role that a matrix, diagram, table, or figure can play when used interactively to generate, elaborate, or confirm analytical insight in a case-based analysis in mixed methods research. The article provides an in-depth exploration of two visual methods: timelining and mapping. Timelining adds dimensionality through investigating a temporal sequence, while a mapping activity can do the same with the understanding of physical locations. Both types of visual displays can enhance validity by providing a way to engage qualitative and quantitative data iteratively and dialectically during analysis. The necessity to pursue dissonance that often arises from integrating qualitative and quantitative results is one signal of the complexity of the examples reviewed. The examples support the argument that a visual display that integrates data from different sources iteratively and dialectically is an analytical strategy unique to mixed methods.

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Mixed Method Research

Mixed Methods Research for Improved Scientific Study - Advances in Knowledge Acquisition, Transfer, and Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0007-0.ch003 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 39-64

Author(s):

Aroop Mukherjee ◽

Nitty Hirawaty Kamarulzaman

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Action Research ◽

Mixed Method ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Mixed Method Research ◽

Research Paradigm ◽

Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽

Combined Use ◽

The Social ◽

Research Findings

Mixed methods have emerged as the third research community in the social and behavioural sciences during the past decades, joining quantitative and qualitative methods of scholarly inquiry. Mixed methods research, research paradigm, methodology, and action research have encouraged the combined use of quantitative and qualitative research to answer complex questions in recent years. Mixed methods research integrates both methods, the quantitative and the qualitative, to present research findings within a single system process. The chapter aims to provide an insight between mixed method research and action research, which includes the basic foundation of mixed method research and research paradigm. The chapter will discuss the concept of action research and how mixed method is applied to action research and its processes. A brief idea about the future plan of action required for mixed methods research to attain better research designs and processes is also discussed in the chapter.

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Fa’afaletui: A Pacific Research Framework

Journal of Mixed Methods Research ◽

10.1177/1558689820985948 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 155868982098594

Author(s):

Felicity Goodyear-Smith ◽

Malakai ‘Ofanoa

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

North American ◽

Mixed Method ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Holistic Approach ◽

Mixed Method Research ◽

Research Framework ◽

Collective Inquiry ◽

The Pacific ◽

New Knowledge

While typically North American and Anglo-European stances have dominated discussion on different paradigms advanced about mixed method research, recently there has been a call for examination of other cultural worldviews. This article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by presenting a worldview based on collective inquiry, whereby different perspectives are woven together to create new knowledge. Fa’afaletui, a Samoan research framework, literally means “‘ways of’ [fa’a] ‘weaving together’ [tui] deliberations of different groups or ‘houses’ [fale].” It is derived from the Pacific philosophy of connectiveness and a collective holistic approach. We give a case example of how this framework is directing our research.

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Adding Narratives to Numbers in a Mixed Methods Study of Successful Ageing: The 6-Day Sample of the Scottish Mental Survey 1947

Sociological Research Online ◽

10.5153/sro.3926 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 67-92 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jd Carpentieri ◽

Jane Elliott ◽

Caroline Brett ◽

Ian Deary

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Mixed Method ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

Positive Outcomes ◽

Mixed Method Research ◽

Successful Ageing ◽

Research Strategies ◽

Research Designs ◽

Potential Benefits

This article details the development and potential uses of a qualitative sub-study within a quantitative, longitudinal study of a Scottish cohort born in 1936 (the 6-Day Sample). Analysing narratives and other biographical interview material, we explore the potential of mixed methods research designs to improve the study of successful ageing, a widely used but contested concept. While acknowledging the critiques of successful ageing, we suggest that the concept can be improved by the adoption of mixed method research strategies that address key criticisms, in particular the lack of attention to older people's own voices. Including those voices in our study alongside researcher-defined outcome measures, we explore the reasons underlying some older people's ‘spiky profiles’, i.e. positive outcomes in some domains and negative outcomes in others. We also investigate the potential benefits and challenges of taking a qualitative approach to the most well known process-focused model of successful ageing: Selection, Optimisation and Compensation (SOC). We conclude that a narratively informed mixed methods research design offers the potential for more comprehensive and nuanced approach to successful ageing.

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Mixed Methods in Finance Research

International Journal of Qualitative Methods ◽

10.1177/1609406918801730 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 160940691880173

Author(s):

N. J. Dewasiri ◽

Y. K. B. Weerakoon ◽

A. A. Azeez

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Mixed Method ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

Mixed Method Research ◽

Scientific Rigor ◽

Main Research ◽

Research Questions ◽

High Level ◽

Selection Of

The purpose of this study is to uncover the rationale (why) and the types of designs (what) for application of mixed method approaches in finance research using a systematic literature review approach. The findings revealed that there are four main research gaps in mixed method applications in finance: (a) poorly or nonformulated research questions, (b) lack of identification of the rationale for mixed methods, (c) poor identification of mixed methods and design, and (d) the manuscript reviewing gap. Finance studies based on quantitative methods and proxy variables can be further validated through mixed method approaches, thereby increasing the validity, completeness, and confirmation of findings, and minimizing the inherent weaknesses of mono-method approaches. We suggest that researchers in the finance discipline should justify their research methodology in order to eliminate the biases that arise through the selection of convenient methodologies. Thus, future studies should incorporate both qualitative and quantitative aspects when formulating mixed method research questions, emphasize the rationale, and choose appropriate mixed method designs to achieve a high level of scientific rigor in mixed methods research. Also, editors of nonmixed method journals need to have reviewing support from mixed method experts or adhere to the guidelines proposed by Onwuegbuzie and Poth when evaluating mixed method manuscripts to achieve a high level of quality and accuracy in their mixed methods research publications in finance.

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