Types of Mixed Methods Research Design

Explanation

1. Convergent design

• conducting qualitative and quantitative research concurrently

•giving equal status to qualitative and quantitative strands

•analysing the qualitative and quantitative data separately

•making general comment by combining the results

2. Explanatory design

• conducting qualitative and quantitative research sequentially

•begging the study with quantitative data collection and analyses

•building the second phase of the study on the results of first phase

•commenting on how the qualitative phase helps to explain the quantitative
phase of the study

3. Exploratory design

• conducting qualitative and quantitative research sequentially

•begging the study with qualitative data collection and analyses

•conducting the quantitative phase based on the qualitative phase by testing
or generalizing the qualitative results

•explain how the quantitative data are built on qualitative results.

4. Embedded design

• consisting of major and supporting research

•conducting qualitative and quantitative research either sequentially or
concurrently

•a qualitative research can be conducted before, during or after the major
quantitative research or vice versa.

•using the supporting phase in order to develop the major research in some
way

5. Transformative design

• shaping interaction, dominance, timing and combination of qualitative and quantitative research based on theoretical framework

•theoretical framework guides the methods decisions

6. Multiphase design

• conducting research by combining sequential and/or concurrent qualitative and quantitative research

•using this design in order to develop, adapt and evaluate programmes