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Understanding Mixed Methods Research

This chapter presents the mixed methods approach in research, which involves the combination of quantitative and qualitative data to answer complex research questions. Mixed methods allow for a deeper understanding by integrating both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.

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Understanding Mixed Methods Research

This chapter presents the mixed methods approach in research, which involves the combination of quantitative and qualitative data to answer complex research questions. Mixed methods allow for a deeper understanding by integrating both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.

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Mixed methods

The goal of mixed research is not to replace research.

not quantitative or qualitative research, but to use the strengths

of both types of inquiry, combining them and trying to minimize

their potential weaknesses.

Learning objectives
By the end of this chapter, the student will be able to:
1. Understand the essence of the mixed approach (nature, fundamentals, advantages and
challenges).
2. Understand the processes of mixed research.
3. Formulate a research problem using a mixed approach.
4. Know the main proposals for mixed designs that have emerged.

Synthesis
The chapter presents the mixed-methods approach to research, which involves a
set of
processes of collection, analysis, and linking of quantitative and qualitative data
in the same study or a series of investigations to answer a
problem statement.
What does the mixed approach or mixed methods consist of?

Mixed methods (MM) combine the quantitative perspective (quanti) and


qualitative (quauli) in the same study, with the aim of adding depth to the
analysis when research questions are complex. More than the sum
of quantitative and qualitative results, the mixed methodology is a guidance with its
cosmovision, its vocabulary and its own techniques, rooted in philosophy
pragmatics with an emphasis on the consequences of action in practices of
real world. This article presents the four MM models more
used in studies related to health sciences in the last two
decades, these are: 1) model for developing instruments; 2) model
explanatory or clarifying; 3) triangulation model; and 4) model of
longitudinal transformation, as well as some guidelines for its use in
educational research. The MM allow for expanding questions and theories
to account for reality and influence the teaching processes and
learning. The responses obtained through the application of MM are rich,
significant and contribute to the understanding of educational phenomena that to their
they often give rise to new questions. The MMs offer the researcher the
opportunity to discover new orientations, experiment with various
strategies and finding meanings that go beyond those derived from use
from a single method.

Chen (2006) defines them as the systematic integration of quantitative methods.


and qualitative in a single study in order to obtain a more complete 'photograph'
of the phenomenon, and notes that these can be combined in such a way that the
quantitative and qualitative approaches retain their structures and
original procedures ("pure form of mixed methods"); or that such
methods can be adapted, altered or synthesized to effect the
research and deal with the study costs ("modified form of the methods
mixed)

Johnson et al. (2006) in a "broad sense" visualize mixed research as


a continuum where quantitative and qualitative approaches are blended,
focusing more on one of them or giving them the same "weight" (see the figure
17.1), where it should be noted that when talking about the quantitative method
It will be abbreviated as CUAN when it comes to the qualitative method as CUAL.

Likewise, uppercase-lowercase indicates priority or emphasis.

In summary, mixed methods use evidence from numerical and verbal data.
textual, visual

symbolic and other types to understand problems in the sciences


The three main research approaches today, including
subtypes
of mixed studies.

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