1. Mixed/Multi Method Design

2. Mixed or Multi Method Design
Overview
What are mixed-method designs?
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Approaches
Bringing quantitative & qualitative together
Mixed vs. Multi Method Designs

3. Mixed or Multi Method Design
What are Mixed Method Designs?
Quantitative
Places the emphasis on measurement when collecting and analysing data. Generally follows a natural science model.
Seeks to understand & interpret events from perspectives of the people involved and as understood by them.
Qualitative
A third research paradigm that encourages the use of quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Mixed Methods

4. Mixed or Multi Method Design
Mixed-Method designs intended to supplement one information source with another, or ‘triangulate’ on an issue by using different data sources and research methods to approach a research problem from different points of view
Mixed Method Designs
Quantitative
Qualitative

5. Mixed or Multi Method Design
Multi-method designs are intended to ‘triangulate’ an issue using two data collection procedure or two or more research methods each of which is from the same quantitative or qualitative tradition.
Multi Method Designs
Quantitative method #1 (or qualitative #1)
Quantitative method #2 (or qualitative #2)

6. Mixed or Multi Method Design
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Approaches
Role of Theory
Quantitative
Qualitative
Deductive approach (often)
Theory testing
Inductive
Approach (often)
Theory generation

7. Mixed or Multi Method Design
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Approaches
Theory of Knowledge
Quantitative
Qualitative
Positivist
Interpretative

8. Mixed or Multi Method Design
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Approaches
View of Social Reality
Quantitative
Qualitative
Objective and measurable
Constructed by people; objective as much as possible

9. Mixed or Multi Method Design
Bringing QN & QL Together
Regression Analysis
Quantitative
Examples
Time Series
Inferential Analysis

10. Mixed or Multi Method Design
Bringing QN & QL Together
QCA
Qualitative Examples
Ethnography
Process Tracing