Mixed Methods
This research approach uses both quantitative and qualitative methods
What is mixed methods research?
Usually seeks to engage participants in the research process in order to solve a problem of practice
What is the purpose of Action Research?
To help people understand and challenge power relations
What is the point of Critical Research?
This is "a logical plan for getting from an initial set of questions to some set of conclusions about those questions.
What is Research Design?
The what, where, when and whom of a study.
What is the Sample?
During the period of paradigm debate, these scholars argued that epistemological differences meant quant and qual should be kept separate
Who were the purists?
This principal of Action Research states that designs typically emerge throughout the study
What is the Second Principle?
This type of research employs data that are not simply words
What is Arts Research?
This can come from observing everyday activities, , social/political issues, from theory, or from the extant literature.
What is a Research Topic?
Probability and non-probability
What are the two primary types of sampling?
This is what Cresswell & Plano Clark call the period from 2000 to present in the development of mixed methods research?
What is the Advocacy and Expansion Period?
1940's
When did Action Research first emerge?
Insider/outsider issues are among the examples of things researchers tend to talk about in this mainstay of critical, feminist, and ethnographic research
What is a Positionality Statement?
Draws upon the concepts, terms, and definitions of a particular literature and disciplinary orientations.
What is the Theoretical Framework?
This is used when the researcher wants to learn form the sample from which the most can be learned
What is Purposive/Purposeful Sampling?
Mixed method approach in which the quant and qual data are collected simultaneously
What is a Convergent design?
This type of action research is interested in emancipating people from injustice
What is Critical Action Research?
This occurs when the researcher presents an image to participants to facilitate data collection
What is an Elicitation Device?
A successful one of these will identify a clear gap in empirical knowledge
What is a Review of the Literature?
Typical, Unique, Maximum Variation
What are types of purposive sampling?
When Quant data are collected before Qual data in a mixed methods study
What is Explanatory Sequential design?
According to Stringer (2014, as cited in Merriam, Chapter 3), this is the key to ownership and engagement with the problem to be solved
What is Active Participation?
This is the title of the children's book that was the subject of Burbules' 1986 analysis that Merriam cites as a classic example of critical research.
What is Tootle?
This should simultaneously reflect your theoretical orientation and the gap in knowledge.
What is the Research Problem?
When no new data is forthcoming from new sampled units
What is Saturation/Redundancy?