Mixed Methods MCQ

A mixed methods approach that primarily uses qualitative research with a secondary quantitative element would be represent as ______.

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Correct Answer: QUAL(quan)

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A philosophy that emphasizes the importance of taking action and learning from the outcomes to generate knowledge.

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Correct Answer: Pragmatism

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This design involves a series of quantitative and qualitative designs with the qualitative data as secondary to the quantitative method.

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Correct Answer: Staged

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This occurs when the primary method is qualitative or quantitative but the researcher adds the other component only to gain additional insights.

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Correct Answer: Embedded design

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The qualitative method is implemented first, followed by the quantitative method.

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Correct Answer: Sequential design

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The quantitative method is implemented first, followed by the qualitative method.

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Correct Answer: Sequential design

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The quantitative and qualitative methods are implemented at the same time.

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Correct Answer: Integrated design

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Using a focus group or cognitive interviewing to refine a structure survey instrument is an example of how mixed methods strengthens ______.

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Correct Answer: Measurement validity

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The quantitative method is implemented at the same time as the qualitative method, but the quantitative method is given priority.

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Correct Answer: Integrated

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Mixed methodology was originally proposed in order to improve measurement validity.

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Correct Answer: True

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An embedded mixed-method design uses qualitative and quantitative methods at the same time to analyze different aspects of a social phenomenon.

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Correct Answer: False

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Mixed methods were very popular during the period of time known as the Paradigm wars, since mixed methodology was able to bridge the divide between positivists and interpretivists.

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Correct Answer: False

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A quantitative researcher can implement an integrated design with little ethical or professional concerns.

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Correct Answer: False

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Researchers may choose to use mixed methods when they want to explore new or understudied phenomena and then test findings from the qualitative research.

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Correct Answer: True

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The use of multiple methods to study one research question; the use of two or more different measures of the same variable is called

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Correct Answer: Triangulation

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Staged mixed-methods design describes the Qualitative and quantitative methods used in sequence in the research and one is given priority.

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Correct Answer: True

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The Paradigm Wars explains the intense debate from the 1970s to the _________ between social scientists over the value of positivist and interpretivist/constructivist research philosophies; also see the scientific paradigm.

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Correct Answer: 1990s

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A method of evaluating the validity of measures by determining whether measuring the same phenomenon with different methods leads to convergent results and measuring different phenomena with the same method leads to divergent results is called

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Correct Answer: Multitrait–multimethod matrix

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Research that combines qualitative and quantitative methods in an investigation of the same or related research question(s) is called

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Correct Answer: Mixed methods

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Qualitative and quantitative methods are used concurrently and both are given equal importance is called

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Correct Answer: Integrated mixed-methods design

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Qualitative and quantitative methods are used concurrently in the research but one is given priority is called

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Correct Answer: Embedded mixed-methods design

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Qualitative and quantitative methods are combined in a research project that uses more than one of the four basic types of mixed-methods designs or that repeats at least one of those basic types is called Complex mixed-methods research design

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Correct Answer: True

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