UNDERSTANDING MIXED METHODS RESEARCH

1 CHAPTER1 UNDERSTANDING MIXEDMETHODS RESEARCHWork on this book began almost a decade ago when we startedwriting about MIXED METHODS RESEARCH at the time that quali-tative RESEARCH had achieved legitimacy and writers were advo-cating for its use in the social and human sciences. Since then, we havepublished more than a dozen articles and book chapters on MIXED methodsresearch. However, our own articles, as well as articles written by others, aredifficult to find because they are scattered in many journals and books. Thisis why it is difficult to see the emerging threads of this new say that MIXED METHODS is a new approach, but we recognize thatothers may not see it as a recent approach. Researchers for many years havecollected both quantitative and qualitative data in the same studies. However,to put both forms of data together as a distinct RESEARCH design or method-ology is new. Thus the idea of mixing the data, the specific types of researchdesigns, the notation system, the terminology, the diagrams of procedures,and the challenges and issues in using different designs all topics foundin this book are new features that have emerged within the last , we have new MIXED METHODS RESEARCH designs that stand alongsideexperiments, surveys, ethnographies, case studies, and the many designsavailable to the researcher in the social and human (Designing)

1 CHAPTER 1 UNDERSTANDING MIXED METHODS RESEARCH W ork on this book began almost a decade ago when we started writing about mixed methods research at the time that quali-

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