Chapter.11 Complete Test Bank Mixing And Comparing Methods - Fundamentals of Research in Criminology 5th Edition Test Bank by Ronet D. Bachman. DOCX document preview.
Test Bank
Chapter 11: Mixing and Comparing Methods
Multiple Choice
1. In his ethnography in Oakland, California, Victor Rios (2011) conducted participant observation, as well as ______.
a. intensive interviews
b. focus groups and. intensive interviews
c. surveys
d. quasi-experiments
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Are Mixed Methods?
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The term mixed methods more specifically indicates that research has combined ______ in an investigation of the same or related research question(s).
a. qualitative and quantitative methods
b. intensive interviewing and quantitative methods
c. qualitative methods and surveys
d. quantitative methods and triangulation
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Are Mixed Methods?
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. The use of multiple methods to study one research question is ______.
a. twinulation
b. triangulation
c. quadrilation
d. octorulation
Learning Objective: 11.6:
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. A researcher who accepts a positivist philosophy believes that ______.
a. there is no reality more important than reality itself
b. the reality experienced by individuals differs because reality exists only in relation to each individual’s unique perspective
c. each individual experiences his/her own reality
d. there is a reality that exists apart from our perceptions or interpretations of it
Learning Objective: 11.2: Explain the philosophy of pragmatism and its relevance for mixed methods.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. The quantitative and qualitative methods are implemented at the same time and the findings are integrated and interpreted together in this design ______.
a. exploratory sequential design
b. convergent parallel design
c. embedded design
d. explanatory design
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. The design where the qualitative method is implemented first followed by the quantitative method is ______ design.
a. explanatory
b. embedded
c. convergent parallel
d. exploratory sequential
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. This design occurs when the primary method is qualitative or quantitative but the researcher adds the other component to gain additional insight ______ design.
a. exploratory
b. convergent parallel
c. embedded
d. exploratory sequential
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Cresswell and Plano Clark (2011) suggest that the unique feature of this design is that it uses a theoretical perspective with a social justice focus such as feminist research or participatory action research ______ design.
a. multiphase
b. transformative
c. explanatory sequential
d. exploratory sequential
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. This design involves a series of quantitative and qualitative designs. Each design and its findings inform the next phase ______ design.
a. transformative
b. explanatory sequential
c. exploratory sequential
d. multiphase
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Kupchik (2010) provides an excellent example of triangulation in practice in his book, Homeroom Security. His methodology would be classified as a ______ design.
a. transformative
b. convergent parallel
c. explanatory sequential
d. exploratory sequential
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. A researcher who accepts a(n) ______ philosophy believes that the reality experienced by individuals differs because reality exists only in relation to each individual’s unique perspective.
a. positivist
b. constructivist
c. interpretivist
d. conflict
Learning Objective: 11.2: Explain the philosophy of pragmatism and its relevance for mixed methods.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Some mixed-methods designs begin with a qualitative method to explore a phenomenon and then proceed with a quantitative method for ______ purposes.
a. sequential
b. confirmatory
c. exploratory
d. transformative
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Bachman conducted face-to-face interviews with homicide offenders at three Midwestern state prisons and then collected state- and county-level data on homicide rates from Supplementary Homicide Reports to test her hypotheses, one of which was ______.
a. the higher the level of social disorganization within a reservation community, the higher the rate of homicide
b. the lower the level of social disorganization within a reservation community, the higher the rate of homicide
c. a higher level of homicide within a reservation community led to a lower level of social disorganization
d. a lower level of homicide within a reservation community led to a higher level of social disorganization
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Case Study: Exploratory Sequential Design: American Indian Homicide
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. In her case study of American Indian homicide, Bachman (1992) hypothesized that the more traditional and integrated a reservation community, the lower the rate of homicide. When she collected her data, she found ______.
a. support for the hypothesis
b. weak support for the hypothesis
c. no support for this hypothesis
d. that the information was inconclusive
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Case Study: Exploratory Sequential Design: American Indian Homicide
Difficulty Level: Hard
15. Testa and colleagues (2011), supplemented their quantitative study of violence against women with a qualitative component, which design is known as a(n) ______.
a. multilayered design – quanqual design
b. embedded design – QUAN(qual) design
c. convergent parallel design
d. embedded sequential design
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Case Study: Embedded Design: Investigating Rape
Difficulty Level: Hard
16. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods within one research project can strengthen the project’s design by enhancing ______.
a. nomothetic causal hypotheses
b. preexisting differences
c. spurious relationships
d. generalizability
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Strengths and Limitations of Mixed Methods
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. In 1993, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a study that examined the effect of having a gun in the home and injurious outcomes such as accidental shootings. The study found that residents who had guns in their homes were ______.
a. no more likely to be injured or die from a gun than residents in homes without guns
b. significantly more likely to be injured or die from a gun than residents in homes without guns
c. barely more likely to be injured or die from a gun than residents in homes without guns
d. more likely to be lobbied by the NRA to prevent research that monitored the effects of guns
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Lacking Data on Gun Violence
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Meta-analysis is a quantitative method for identifying patterns in findings ______.
a. in several individual studies of similar research questions
b. across multiple studies of the same research question
c. describing previous research studies verbally
d. across multiple publications
Learning Objective: 11.6:
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Meta-Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. The function often underscored in mixed-methods research is ______.
a. single landmark
b. double quantitative
c. triangulation
d. inductivity
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: What Are Mixed Methods?
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. Meta-analysis shows how evidence about interventions varies across ______.
a. time and space
b. research studies
c. demographics
d. race
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Meta-Analysis
Difficulty Level: Hard
21. A meta-analysis is a ______.
a. research method for analyzing and integrating findings from qualitative studies
b. way of looking at qualitative literature on women in the illicit drug economy to identify and integrate key themes
c. qualitative method for looking at multiple studies
d. quantitative method for identifying patterns in findings across multiple studies of the same research question
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Meta-Analysis
Difficulty Level: Hard
22. Meta-synthesis also requires not just aggregating findings from different qualitative studies but also ______.
a. reintegrating the findings
b. reinterpreting the data
c. reworking them as well
d. reanalyzing and resynthesizing them when necessary
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Meta-Synthesis
Difficulty Level: Hard
23. A standardized measure of association, often the difference between the mean of the experimental group and the mean of the control group on the dependent variable, adjusted for the average variability in the two groups, is known as the ______.
a. affected size
b. aggregate size
c. effect size
d. statistical effect
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Meta-Analysis
Difficulty Level: Hard
24. Maher and Hudson (2007) performed a ______ examining the qualitative literature on women in the illicit drug economy to identify and integrate key themes.
a. meta-synthesis
b. meta-analysis
c. thick description
d. statistical synthesis
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Case Study: Meta-Synthesis: Female Drug Dealers
Difficulty Level: Hard
25. One special challenge in mixed-methods projects is ______.
a. defining the researcher’s role in relation to the research participants
b. comprehending the time and energy expended by the research participants
c. the magnitude of adopting one of the researcher roles in gathering quantitative data
d. the qualitative researcher defining his/her role as an outside expert and having no contact with the participants
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Ethics and Mixed Methods
Difficulty Level: Hard
26. The mixed-methods examples from this chapter demonstrate that a research design is a(n) ______.
a. empirical phenomena
b. integrated whole
c. segregated whole
d. synchronized assessment
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Conclusion
Difficulty Level: Hard
27. Sampson and Laub contended that martial attachment and job stability were key factors associated with ______ crime.
a. race and
b. desistance from
c. poverty and
d. understanding life-course trajectory of
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: What We Have in Mind
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. According to Morgan (2014), the evidence we obtain with our research methods enables us to understand others’ perspectives and to develop an understanding of larger social contexts, but it does not allow us ______.
a. the luxury of total understanding of the process
b. the realization of the greater reality
c. the knowledge of a single reality to test the ideas against
d. to conclude one perspective is correct
Learning Objective: 11.2: Explain the philosophy of pragmatism and its relevance for mixed methods.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. Bachman (1992) used this design when studying the social causes of homicide within contemporary American Indian communities ______ design.
a. exploratory sequential
b. explanatory sequential
c. embedded
d. transformative
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Case Study: Exploratory Sequential Design: American Indian Homicide
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. Bachman began the deductive phase of her research by collecting state- and county-level data on homicide rates from the Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) and combined these data with social indicators of poverty and social disorganization from the U.S. Census. Then, she tested her ______ hypotheses.
a. four
b. six
c. three
d. five
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Case Study: Exploratory Sequential Design: American Indian Homicide
Difficulty Level: Hard
31. Victims’ responses to structured questions indicated an association between alcohol and rape, but when victims elaborated on their experiences in qualitative interviews, Testa, et al. (2011) concluded that ______.
a. the victims had had so much to drink that they were unconscious or at least unable to speak at the time of the rape
b. the stories of the victims matched up perfectly with the stories of the alleged perpetrators
c. the data was untrustworthy due to tainted evidence
d. there was no connection
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Case Study: Embedded Design: Investigating Rape
Difficulty Level: Hard
32. In his study on school security and discipline, Aaron Kupchik (2010) used which methodology?
a. convergent parallel design
b. explanatory sequential design
c. exploratory sequential design
d. embedded design
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Case Study: Convergent Parallel Design: School Security and Discipline
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. Testa and her colleagues (2011) concluded that insights yielded by the qualitative data analysis ______ justified the time-consuming process of reading and rereading interviews, coding text, and discussing and reinterpreting the codes.
a. partially
b. in no way
c. slightly
d. fully
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Case Study: Embedded Design: Investigating Rape
Difficulty Level: Hard
34. True experimental designs are strongest for testing ______ causal hypotheses
a. idiographic
b. nomothetic
c. quasi-experimental
d. spurious
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Strengths and Limitations of Mixed Methods
Difficulty Level: Medium
35. Survey questionnaires can only measure what respondents are willing to report; they may not be adequate for studying ______.
a. socially acceptable behaviors
b. attitudes that are widely talked about
c. behaviors or attitudes that are regarded as socially unacceptable
d. attitudes that are spurious
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Strengths and Limitations of Mixed Methods
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. The use of mixed methods should be an intentional design decision, not the addition of another aspect of research that is an afterthought or fishing expedition.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: What Are Mixed Methods?
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The intense debate from the 1970s to the 1990s between social scientists over the value of positivist and interpretivist/constructivist research philosophies is known as the paradigm wars.
Learning Objective: 11.2: Explain the philosophy of pragmatism and its relevance for mixed methods.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. It is very sensible to use meta-analysis to combine study results when the original case data from these studies are available.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Meta-Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Meta-synthesis can be used when a number of studies have attempted to answer the same research question with similar quantitative methods.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Meta-Synthesis
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Meta-analysis is not typically used for evaluating results from multiple studies that used different methods or measured different dependent variables.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Meta-Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Meta-analyses and meta-syntheses make us aware of how hazardous it is to base understandings of social processes on single studies that are limited in time, location, and measurement.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Case Study: Meta-Analysis: The Effectiveness of Antibullying Programs
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. The 2013 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey reported that about 11% of teens between the ages of 12 and 18 had been bullied in the past six months.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Case Study: Meta-Analysis: The Effectiveness of Antibullying Programs
Difficulty Level: Hard
8. According to Teddlie & Tashakkori (2010), a common reason for mixing both quantitative and qualitative methods in one research project is to take advantage of the unique strengths of each methodological approach when engaged in different stages of the research process
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: What Are Mixed Methods?
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. In addition to asking philosophical questions about the use of mixed methods, a researcher should also consider practical questions before deciding to mix methods in an investigation.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Sampson and Laub (1993) contended that martial attachment and job stability were key factors associated with desistance from crime.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do We Have in Mind?
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. Bachman et al (2013) unconsciously developed their project using a mixed-methods design.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do We Have in Mind?
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. In the ethnography in Oakland, California Creswell (2011) conducted participant observation, focus groups, and intensive interviews.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Do We Have in Mind?
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. The use of multiple methods to study one research question is known as triangulation.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. A researcher who accepts an interpretivist philosophy believes that there is a reality that exists apart from our perceptions or interpretations of it.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. A researcher who accepts an interpretivist philosophy believes that the reality experienced by individuals differs because reality exists only in relation to each individual’s unique perspective.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Increasingly, researchers are sidestepping the conflicting philosophies altogether in favor of using what seems to work best for answering a given research question.
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. In a convergent parallel design the quantitative and qualitative methods are implemented at the same time and the findings are integrated and interpreted together.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. In an explanatory sequential design, the qualitative method is implemented first followed by the quantitative method.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. In an embedded design, the primary method is qualitative or quantitative but the researcher adds the other component to gain additional insight.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. The unique feature of a transformative design is that it uses a theoretical perspective with a social justice focus such as feminist research or participatory action research, in order to improve the well-being of vulnerable populations.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. The sequential design involves a series of quantitative and qualitative designs, where each design and its findings inform the next phase.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. In mixed-methods research, the multiphase design involves a series of quantitative and qualitative designs, with each design and the findings informing the next phase.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. Bachman (1992) used the explanatory sequential design when studying the social causes of homicide within contemporary American Indian communities.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. Testa and colleagues (2011) supplemented their quantitative study of violence against women with a qualitative component because violence against women is “a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, occurring within a social context that is influenced by gender norms, interpersonal relationships, and sexual scripts.”
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Case Study: Embedded Design: Investigating Rape
Difficulty Level: Hard
25. Closed-ended questions are most common and are well suited for the reliable measurement of variables that have been studied in the past and whose meanings are well understood.
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Strengths and Limitations of Mixed Methods
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer/Essay
1. Rate each type of design with regard to measurement validity, generalizability, type of causal assertions, and causal validity.
Design | Measurement Validity | Generalizability | Type of Causal Assertions | Causal Validity |
Experiments | ||||
Surveys | ||||
Participant Observation and Intensive Interviewing |
Design | Measurement Validity | Generalizability | Type of Causal Assertions | Causal Validity |
Experiments | + | - | Nomothetic | + |
Surveys | + | + / - | Nomothethic | + / - |
Participant Observation and Intensive Interviewing | + / - | - | Ideographic | - |
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Strengths and Limitations of Mixed Methods
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. What are mixed methods? Why are they used?
Learning Objective: 11.1: Understand the history of mixed methods, and explain the appeal of this approach.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: What Are Mixed Methods?
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. What are the “paradigm wars”?
Learning Objective: 11.2: Explain the philosophy of pragmatism and its relevance for mixed methods.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. What is the positivist philosophy?
Learning Objective: 11.2: Explain the philosophy of pragmatism and its relevance for mixed methods.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. What is the Interpretivist philosophy?
Learning Objective: 11.2: Explain the philosophy of pragmatism and its relevance for mixed methods.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Should Methods Be Mixed?
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. What are some strengths of using mixed methodology? Challenges? Are any of the methods superior to the others?
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Strengths and Limitations of Mixed Methods
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. What is triangulation? What is its value? Where does the term originate?
Learning Objective: 11.6:
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Are Mixed Methods?
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. What is a convergent parallel design? Illustrate the design.
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. What is an explanatory sequential design? Illustrate the design.
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. What is an embedded design? Illustrate the design.
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. What is a transformative design? Illustrate the design.
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. The Multiphase Design
Learning Objective: 11.4: State at least one reason for the use of each major type of mixed method.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Types of Mixed-Methods Designs
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. According to Lipsey and Wilson (2001), what are the eligibility criteria for studies to be included in literature reviews?
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Meta-Analysis
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. What is a Meta-Synthesis? What is a Meta-Analysis? How are they different?
Learning Objective: 11.5: Define triangulation, and explain its value.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Meta-Synthesis
Difficulty Level: Hard
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