Deck 5: Mixed Methods Research

Question 1

______ analysis is more specific than ______ analysis in this mixed methods model, both methods are given equal emphasis and typically are introduced concurrently.

A) Nested
B) Transformative
C) Convergent parallel
D) Exploratory sequential

Answer 1

C, D

Question 2

______ design allows the researcher to flexibly use designs such as convergent, explanatory, exploratory, or embedded depending upon the purpose of the study.

A) Transformative
B) Explanatory sequential
C) Nested
D) Triangulation

Answer 2

A

Question 3

______ mixed method may be used to simultaneously collect data, but is more depth in certain areas.

A) Transformative
B) Triangulation
C) Explanatory sequential
D) Embedded

Answer 3

D

Question 4

In ______ design, the researcher initially uses a quantitative approach followed by a qualitative approach to explain in depth the results.

A) exploratory sequential
B) transformative
C) triangulation
D) explanatory sequential

Question 5

The purpose of using ______ mixed methods design would be "to use quantitative data and results to assist in the interpretation of qualitative findings."

A) explanatory sequential
B) exploratory sequential
C) nested
D) transformative

Question 6

______ mixed method design is the most straightforward and potentially the simplest. The purpose being is typically to use qualitative results to assist in explaining and interpreting the findings of primarily quantitative study.

A) Explanatory sequential
B) Exploratory sequential
C) Transformative
D) Embedded transformative

Question 7

______ mixed method may be used to simultaneously collect data, but one method plays more of a supportive role.

A) Transformative
B) Triangulation
C) Embedded
D) Exploratory sequential

Question 8

The use of similar methods of data collection or a within-methods approach such as multiple reviewers interpreting the same data is referred to as establishing ______.

A) validity
B) reliability
C) convergent validation
D) scaling

Question 9

Research and inquiry not based on personal values is a characteristic of ______.

A) qualitative research paradigm
B) quantitative research paradigm
C) postpositivist research paradigm
D) ethnographic research paradigm

Question 10

Deductive logic progressing from general to specific in focus is a characteristic of ______.

A) qualitative research paradigm
B) postpositivist research paradigm
C) ethnographic research paradigm
D) quantitative research paradigm

Question 11

The use of an inductive logic view, with the intent to interpret from the specific to the general is the characteristic of ______.

A) qualitative research paradigms
B) quantitative research paradigms
C) ethnographic research paradigm
D) positivist research paradigm

Question 12

______ encompasses both qualitative and quantitative with a focus on a parallel process which results in breadth and depth of the subject matter being researched.

A) Phenomenological methods
B) Historical methods
C) Grounded theory methods
D) Mixed methods

Question 13

A research ______ has been described as a particular set of belief systems that provide a guideline for researchers.

A) paradigm
B) outcome
C) process
D) proposal

Question 14

______ is the conversion of qualitative data into outcomes or quantitative data.

A) Interpretation
B) Validation
C) Operationalization
D) Scaling

Question 15

The basic belief that there exists a reality out there driven by immutable natural laws is held by ______.

A) qualitative researchers
B) quantitative researchers
C) ethnographic researchers
D) phenomenological researchers

Question 16

Advocates for the use of quantitative methods believe that qualitative methods have resulted in philosophical "wars."

Question 17

Qualitative researchers hold that there are potentially a number of different constructed realities and that information is value laden.

Question 18

Objectivity in a postpositivism paradigm is not valued.

Question 19

Postpositivism is not a variation of positivism but is based on critical realism.

Question 20

Quantitative research originated out of experimental psychology in the late 1800s.

Question 21

Triangulation in mixed methods research is defined in terms of the combined use of methods to investigate and understand the same phenomena.

Question 22

The introduction of mixed methods research models essentially heated up the significant debates and "wars" over which research method was superior.

Question 23

During the Purist era, both qualitative and quantitative researchers advanced their view as being the better approach.

Question 24

There has been a significant decrease in the number of published research articles using mixed methods research over the past 15 years.

Question 25

The greater the qualitative-quantitative parallelism in the study design and its implementation, the more difficult it is to compare and contrast textual and numeric forms of evidence in an integrative manner.

Question 26

______ holds that generalizations may be made across situations and contexts rather easily.

Question 27

______ hold that there are potentially a number of different constructed realities and that information is value laden.

Question 28

______ involves the use of multiple methods to focus on particular phenomena.

Question 29

______ involves the use of similar methods of data collection or a within-methods approach such as multiple reviewers interpreting the same data.

Question 30

This research method period______ started in the 1960s and extended to the 1980s. The focus of this period was a beginning attempt to find commonalities between research paradigms and to begin to use mixed methods.

Question 31

______involves initially using qualitative methods followed by quantitative methods. The purpose is to explain more fully the quantitative methods.

Question 32

Compare and contrast explanatory sequential and exploratory sequential mixed methods model.

Question 33

Discuss the purpose of the transformative mixed methods model.

Question 34

______ uses quantitative data and results to assist in the interpretation of qualitative findings.

Question 35

______ utilizes one of four designs (explanatory, exploratory, embedded, and convergent) systematically with a purpose of focusing on a marginalized group.

Question 36

Discuss the characteristics of the positivist paradigm.

Question 37

Compare and contrast the characteristics of the positivist and qualitative research paradigm.

Question 38

Discuss the Purist, Period II, and the 1990s in relationship to the emergence mixed methods research.

Question 39

There are several approaches to triangulation scaling, reliability, and convergent validation. Discuss each.