ESR 616 Mixed Methods Design

This advanced doctoral research course engages students in understanding and applying mixed-methods research approaches. Students will learn the purposes, components of mixed-methods research design, and the questions appropriate for such a design. The course begins with a review of the quantitative and qualitative methods learned from previous courses, discusses the paradigm associated with mixed-methods designs, and develops an understanding of what constitutes high quality mixed methods approaches. Within the course students will collect pilot data associate with their research interests and preliminarily analyze the data using a mixed-methods approach. The outcome is that students will be able to write a draft methods chapter applying mixed-methods approach. Pre-requisite(s): ESR 608, ESR 612 and ESR 614. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours