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Understanding Mixed Methods Research

The mixed route in research combines qualitative and quantitative methods, enhancing their interaction for a deeper understanding of the subject. It utilizes various data types, including verbal, textual, and numerical, and can be implemented in different sequences. The approach offers advantages such as richer data, improved theoretical creativity, and better acceptance of results by diverse audiences.

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Understanding Mixed Methods Research

The mixed route in research combines qualitative and quantitative methods, enhancing their interaction for a deeper understanding of the subject. It utilizes various data types, including verbal, textual, and numerical, and can be implemented in different sequences. The approach offers advantages such as richer data, improved theoretical creativity, and better acceptance of results by diverse audiences.

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The mixed route according to the proposed material: Hernández, R., Mendoza, C. (2018).

Research methodology. It tells us the following:


The mixed route
This third way to conduct research intertwines both the qualitative route and the
quantitative and the mix, but it is more than the sum of the two previous ones and implies that these
have an interaction and enhancement with each other. Mixed methods represent a
set of systematic and critical research processes and involve the collection
both quantitative and qualitative data analysis, as well as their integration and
joint discussion to achieve a greater understanding of the object being
studied.
In the mixed route, evidence from verbal, textual, and visual numerical data is used.
symbolic and some more classes to understand the problem presented in the
sciences.
Mixed methods can be implemented according to various sequences. Sometimes from the
qualitative proceeds to the quantitative, in other occasions from the quantitative one proceeds to the
qualitative, it could also develop simultaneously or in parallel, it's even more
feasible to split them from the beginning and throughout the entire research process.
Mixed methods should be used due to the complex nature of the vast majority.
of the research problems addressed in different sciences. These represent
made up of two realities, one objective and the other subjective. For example, a
organization, let's say a university. It is an objective reality: it has capital, offices,
furniture, occupies a physical space, has certain built meters, a number
specific to students, teachers, and administrative staff; it can be seen and touched. Worse
It also constitutes a subjective reality composed of various realities.
Advantages:
Achieve a broader and deeper perspective of the phenomenon
2. Produce richer and more varied data through the multiplicity of observations, already
that various sources and types of data, environmental contexts, and are considered
analysis.
3. Enhance theoretical creativity through sufficient critical procedures of
valuation.
4. Support scientific inferences more solidly, which are used.
isolatedly.
5. Allow for better exploration, exploitation, and generalization of the data.
6. Possibility of being more successful when presenting results to a hostile audience. By
For example, a statistical fact may be more accepted by qualitative researchers.
if he/she presents with follow-ups of interviews.
7. Develop new skills or competencies in research subjects or
to strengthen them.
Reasonings:
a) Enrichment of the sample by mixing approaches which improves it.
b) Greater fidelity or validity of the data collection instruments
certifying that they are appropriate and useful, as well as improving the tools
available.
c) Integrity of treatment or intervention (ensuring its reliability).
d) Optimization of meanings (facilitating greater perspective of the data,
considering interpretations and the utility of the discoveries).

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