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The Mixed Methods Research Workbook
Every mixed-methods textbook explains what a convergent design is. None gives you the template to plan your integration before you collect data. This workbook does: 58 fill-in templates from design selection to joint displays and your write-up.
By Dr. Rafiq Muhammad, MD, PhD · 284 pages · Convergent, sequential, embedded, multiphase and transformative designs · Paperback $36.99 · ★★★★★ 7 reader reviews
What readers say
★★★★★ 7 reader reviews from Amazon
“The “one problem per page” principle works well; you are never juggling three decisions at once, and you always end up with something useable, whether that is a justification paragraph, a design diagram, or a joint display template.”
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Read on Amazon →“Very practical workbook, clear templates, guides you step by step design and how to integrate it into your workflow”
Read on Amazon →“Highly practical workbook with clear templates, guiding researchers from theory to execution while simplifying complex mixed methods design and integration.”
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Read on Amazon →Sound familiar?
“I know my study needs both kinds of data. I don't know how to integrate them.”
“My committee asked, "Where is your integration?"”
“I'm not sure which mixed-methods design I'm actually using.”
“I've collected both datasets and they're sitting in two separate chapters.”
Integration is designed, not discovered at the end. When the design is chosen deliberately and integration points are planned into each strand, the joint display and the meta-inferences follow naturally.
How it works
From the design decision to a write-up your committee can follow.
Use the decision tree and comparison matrix, and justify the choice in writing.
Plan each strand with its integration points, then build the joint display.
Validity, trustworthiness and legitimation, with a chapter outline and defence questions.
What you will have
Look inside
One study is worked as a convergent design, then reconfigured for other designs, so you see how each handles the same problem. These are real pages. Tap to enlarge.
Is it for you?
Clinician-researcher, PhD from Karolinska Institutet, and author of the Mastering Research books and workbooks, used by graduate students from the research question to the viva.
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Questions
Convergent, explanatory sequential, exploratory sequential, embedded, multiphase and transformative designs, with the worked study reconfigured for each.
You can still use the integration, joint display and legitimation chapters to integrate what you have and write it up.
The quality criteria specific to mixed methods, beyond validity and trustworthiness. The book has a nine-type checklist built on Onwuegbuzie and Johnson's framework.
There is a 20-question defence preparation tool covering the questions mixed-methods committees ask, with model responses.
Choose the design deliberately, plan integration from the start, and show its quality.
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