NURS 3205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Randomized Controlled Trial, The Technique
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Chapter 13: mixed methods and other special types of research. Research that integrates quantitative and qualitative data and strategies in a single study or coordinated clusters of studies: many areas of inquiry can be enriched by triangulating quantitative and qualitative data; some questions require mixed methods: pragmatism, advantages. Concurrent qualitative and quantitative data are collected at the same time. Sequential qualitative and quantitative data are collected in phases: morse notations system: Convergent parallel design: obtain different, but complementary, data about the central phenomenon under study i. e. , to triangulate data sources. Quan + qual or quan + qual. Explanatory design: sequential designs with quantitative data collected in the first phase, followed by qualitative data collected in the second phase. Quan qual or quan qual. Means one study precedes the other to explain something. Exploratory design: sequential mm designs, with qualitative data being collected first. Qual quan or qual quan. Phenomenology first explains components, then develop instrument/intervention.
