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Applied Social Research Methods #46
Mixed Methodology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Looking for a practical guide to using mixed methodologies? This book explores the most effective way to combine qualitative and quantitative techniques. It begins with a discussion of the paradigm wars between positivism and constructivism, explains the difference between using mixed methods in just the research methodology portion of a study versus using mixed model studies across all phases of the process, and then presents a typology of mixed methods and mixed model studies.
200 pages, Paperback
First published June 24, 1998
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June 28, 2015
Date Started: 15/05/2015
Date Finished: 09/06/2015
As an international PhD student and non-native speaker of English, I haven’t read a complete book about methodology in English before. All of the similar genre were in Arabic, while I was studying my master back home. Re-Learning scientific terms is not that easy, you keep relating the Arabic version to the English one, a process of understanding and comprehension in order to use them within academic writing afterwards. The book isn’t about Mixed Methods only, it starts with a chapter that draws a full picture of positivists and interpretivists dilemma, reviewing a history of scientific research and methods. The interesting thing is using several examples of research excerpts which explains in a practical way how to ‘apply theoretical parts’. Though I admit that I lost my concentration in the last two parts, I highly recommend it for each postgraduate student, it gives them a clear introduction to the principles of research methodologies terms, which the reader can search about indepth later
Date Finished: 09/06/2015
As an international PhD student and non-native speaker of English, I haven’t read a complete book about methodology in English before. All of the similar genre were in Arabic, while I was studying my master back home. Re-Learning scientific terms is not that easy, you keep relating the Arabic version to the English one, a process of understanding and comprehension in order to use them within academic writing afterwards. The book isn’t about Mixed Methods only, it starts with a chapter that draws a full picture of positivists and interpretivists dilemma, reviewing a history of scientific research and methods. The interesting thing is using several examples of research excerpts which explains in a practical way how to ‘apply theoretical parts’. Though I admit that I lost my concentration in the last two parts, I highly recommend it for each postgraduate student, it gives them a clear introduction to the principles of research methodologies terms, which the reader can search about indepth later
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