Discuss how using a mixed-methods data collection approach will lead you to understand

Discuss how using a mixed-methods data collection approach will lead you to understand

In Chapter 4 of Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Researcher, Mills (2014) shares that “ the strength of educational research lies in its triangulation, collecting information in many ways rather than relying solely on one” (p. 104).

Complete the Data Collection Worksheet to include the following:

Area of focus statement

Brief description of proposed intervention

Table
Research Questions

Data Collection Tool

Why this tool? Justify its use in your study.
How does it match with what you are
attempting to find and to measure?

Discuss how using a mixed-methods data collection approach will lead you to understand and explain more fully what is discovered during the research, as opposed to using one approach over the other.
For an example of a finished triangulation matrix, see page 105 of Action Research: A Guide for the Teacher Researcher.

 

 

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Triangulation is the process of using different methods when conducting research. Use of mixed method for data collection is accurate as compared to use single research method. The methods give the same results. The data collected are reliable. Triangulation process explains data collected in detail. (Rothbauer, 2008, pg. 456)……………………

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