Mixed Methods Research

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This course will emphasize the use of qualitative methods to complement quantitative data. The course will review the assumptions and mental models that inform both approaches, and the ways in which qualitative and quantitative goals, questions, methods, analysis strategies, and presentation styles can be integrated. Students will first learn the basics of question-making, interviewing, coding, and analyzing qualitative data through practice and examples in the literature. After this overview of qualitative research, the course will highlight the main five designs of mixed methods in the social, behavioral, and health sciences: (1) explanatory sequential; (2) exploratory sequential; (3) embedded; (4) convergent parallel; and (5) transformative. The class will review current literature and guidelines from the National Institutes of Health as primary resources.