Post on 28-Mar-2015
WHAT IS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH? DAY EVENT10 January 2012
NCRM - Quest
WHAT IS MIXED METHODS RESEARCH?
Rosalind Edwards
Sociology and Social Policy
“Mixed methods research is a methodology for conducting research that involves collecting, analyzing, and integrating (or mixing) quantitative and qualitative research (and data) in a single study or a longitudinal program of inquiry. The purpose of this form of research is that both qualitative and quantitative research, in combination, provide a better understanding of a research problem or issue than either research approach alone.”
(Creswell, 2008)
Models of Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
• Qualitative methods as a facilitator of quantitative work
• Quantitative methods as a facilitator of qualitative work
• Qualitative and quantitative as equally important
Factors: relative importance order in relation to each otherstage of the research process
Qualitative work as facilitating
quantitative work
• Provides ideas / hypotheses
• Develop / pilot research instruments
• Clarify / illustrate data
Quantitative methods as facilitating
qualitative work
• Provides contextual background
• Provides basis for sampling
• Tests ideas / hypotheses
Qualitative and quantitative methods have equal emphasis
• Combined research instrument
• Side by side projects
• Consecutive / simultaneous data gathering
• Equal part in analysis / writing up
Epistemological fit
• Complementarity
• Integration
Parents’ typifications of bringing up mixed children based on interviews
Self-completion survey
openindividualise
mixcollective
singlecollective
Key:mother
father
Tenure of accommodation of parents in mixed relationships
Home owner (75.5%)
Public rental (11.5%)
Private rented (13%)