How do researchers decide if they should use a mixed research design?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: The researcher thinks about two dimensions: the time orientation and predominance of one methodology or the other. Based on the area of study and the research question, the researcher decides whether the qualitative and quantitative methodologies will be weighted equally in the mixed design or whether one will predominate. Once this decision is made, the researcher needs to think about implementing the qualitative and quantitative components of the mixed research study. The researcher needs to decide whether data will be collected by the two methodologies at similar times or if one set of data will be collected earlier than the other. For examples, it may be that data collected by one method can be used to inform the procedures and measures to be used when implementing the other paradigm
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