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How many types of research design?

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Inch41
29 November 2019
How many types of research design?

How many types of research design?

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Jason Jiang
20 February 2020

Research design is the framework of research methods and techniques chosen by a researcher. Generally, there are mainly two types of research design: quantitative research design and qualitative research design. Quantitative research deals with numbers and statistics, while qualitative research deals with words and meanings. Each of these types of research has different objectives and methods, and both are important for gaining different kinds of knowledge. The choose of research design should be based on specific research questions.

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Inch41
29 November 2019

Thx.

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Ellijah
29 November 2019

In general, there were three, namely sequential mixed methods, concurrent mixed methods as well as transformative mixed methods

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Inch41
29 November 2019

There are different mixed methods about the research design. May I know how many of them?

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Ellijah
29 November 2019

The purpose of each design is as follows:
Qualitative research: To explore the meaning individuals or groups that lead to a social problem.
Quantitative research: To test the relationships among variables
Mixed method research: To gain more comprehensive understanding of a study by combining both qualitative research and quantitative forms.

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Inch41
29 November 2019

I am not familiar with those. May you explain the purpose of each design?

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Ellijah
29 November 2019

Generally, there are 3 types of designs, which are qualitative research, quantitative research and mixed methods research.

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