You have been randomly assigned to six groups of four students.
In your groups, you will consider and discuss abstracts of mixed methods studies.
Within each group, each person must select an abstract that no one else has selected from the list below. (The group spaces within eCourses/Canvas will facilitate discussions among your group members to pre-determine topic selection.)
Each person must then answer the following questions for the abstract they selected:
Identify the purpose of the study.
Based upon the abstract, what is the basic design (explanatory sequential, exploratory sequential, or convergent parallel) used for the study? Provide a rationale for your answer.
List one data source that is quantitative and one data source that is qualitative.
Respond to one person in your group by asking a clarifying question about the abstract they read.
Don’t forget to tell your peers which abstract you selected at the beginning of your post.
Mine is: Crede, E., & Borrego, M. (2013). From ethnography to items: A mixed methods approach to developing a survey to examine graduate engineering student retention. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 7, 62-80.
