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Research questions
Who should organized and pay for the education and •
?training of working adults
Mixed methods
EDM 6402 ,Who participate in adult education and training programs •
?and why do they participate
Qualitative Method in Educational Research
Lai Man Hong What are the strengths and limitations of different types •
Department of Educational Administration and Policy, CUHK of education and training that purport to improve worker
HTB 302, 26096454 ?competencies
mhlai@cuhk.edu.hk

Mixed Method A brief history

Mixed method studies are those that •
combine the qualitative and quantitative
approaches into the research methodology
of a single study (Tashakkori & Teddlie, 1998)

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Third methodological movement •

)Tashakkori & Teddlie, 2003(

adolescence •

• Because social phenomena are so complex, different kinds of

methods are needed to best understand these complexities
)greene & Caracelli, 1997 (

• Mixed methods are becoming increasingly popular, especially

The ultimate goal of any research project • because they are often more efficient in answering research
questions than either the qualitative or the quantitative
is to answer the questions that were set approach alone (Tashakkori & Teddlie, 1998)

.forth at the project’s beginning • Methods should be mixed in a way that has complementary
strengths (Johnson & Turner, 2003)

• Mixed methods provide the opportunity for presenting a

.greater diversity of divergent views

• Mixed methods research provides stronger inferences

• A major advantages of mixed methods research is that it

enables the researcher to simultaneously answer confirmatory
and exploratory questions, and therefore verify and generate
.theory in the same study

Example
Whether mixed methods, as compared to other • Steven (2002) •
?designs, best addresses the research problem
Hypothesis: teachers in schools with •
Are both qualitative and quantitative research • distinguished educator (DE) would perform
?questions raised better on measures of teacher effectiveness
than would teachers in school without the DE
Are conclusions drawn from both the qualitative •
?and quantitative data ?How this had occurred •

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Major types of mixed methods

Title
research
Adolescent development and transition to • Triangulation design •
motherhood: a mixed methods study
QUAN QUAL

QUAN + QUAL

Embedded design • Explanatory design •

QUAN

qual QUAN (qual)

QUAN qual QUAN qual

QUAL
QUAL (quan)
quan

Choosing a research design

Exploratory design • Theoretical drive •

Orientation (dominant, less dominant) •

qaul QUAN qual QUAN

Sequence •

Researchers should carefully select a single design that •

best matches the research problem. This will make the
study more manageable and simpler to implement and
.describe

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