HLT1RAE Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Focus Group, Practice Theory, Time And Motion Study
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Back in the late 1980s, several publications began to appear across disciplines to describe and define mixed methods research. For example, greene, caracelli and graham (1989), identify the following five reasons for conducting mixed methods studies: * to triangulate the data: collecting both quantitative and qualitative data simultaneously, comparing and contrasting the findings and merging them. * to complement the data: sometimes the researcher is seeking elaboration, enhancement, illustration and clarification from the results of one method with those of another. * to develop the data: when the researcher uses the results of the first method to develop or inform research using the other method. * to understand paradoxes or contradictions coming out of one type of data. * to expand the data: when the researcher seeks to extend the breadth and range of a study, by using the different methods for different components of the study.
