Rationale for Conducting Mixed Methods Research

Explanation

Participant enrichment

involves blending quantitative and qualitative research to better the sample using approaches that encompass recruiting participants, dealing with activities such as institutional review board interviews assuring that each participant chosen is eligible for involvement

Instrument fidelity

pertains to evaluating the convenience and/or effectuality of current instruments, by generating new instruments and observing performance of human instruments.

Treatment integrity

presents evaluating the level of compliance of intervention.

Significance enhancement

refers to interpretation and utility of findings

Triangulation

seeks convergence, correspondence, and corroboration of results from different methods studying the same phenomenon

Complementarity

seeks elaboration, enhancement, illustration, and clarification of the results from one method with results from the other method

Development

seeks to use the results from one method to help inform the other method.

Initiation

refers to discovering paradoxes and contradictions as well as providing different perspectives that may lead to a reframing of the research question or results.

Expansion

seeks to expand the breadth and range of inquiry by using different methods for different inquiry components.