It depends on how you use the racism questions. In another post here, you suggest that at least one goal is to screen out people with racist tendencies. That would not be mixed methods because in would not combine the results of the questionnaire with the qualitative results.

Michael - David is correct - 'it depends'. If your survey is 'seperate' to your qualitative component (and you do suggest the the qualitative component is a 'study' perhaps on its own) - then it would not be a mixed methods study. If the survey and qualitative (? interviews) components inform each other, are related to an over-arching question that links both - and the results are combined to inform an overall finding - then it is most likely mixed methods. 

I would like my participants to complete a racism survey before doing a qualitative study, does this mean that I am doing a mixed design?

To be considered as mixed design, both the quantitative research (racism survey) and later qualitative research should be connected / related.  E.g. if you are studying certain factors influencing racism & through your survey you'd discovered a factor X is significantly influencing racism in which later through qualitative research i.e. you interview some surveyed respondents why & how factor X is related to racism.  If both quantitative & qualitative research are independent or non-related, or you'd interviewed some interviewees which were not involved in your earlier survey etc. they are not mixed design.  By reading your research problem, research objective(s) and research question(s), other researchers can evaluate whether you are doing the correct mixed design.  This quantitative then followed by qualitative research in mixed design is called Sequential Explanatory Design.

Referring several literature of the mixed methods, combining the quantitative and qualitative methods in the same research inquiry is the criteria of the method.  Furthermore, the "same" must be presented in the research process and its findings.

In the processional validation of the mixed methods study--as it was also above mentioned by Dr. Han Ping Fung, the cohesiveness of the research aspects can be justified across the research program points (i.e., the problems, objectives, and the questions of the study) to the research methodology aspects (e.g., the population, sampling, data collection, its analysis, and the interpretation aspects). In short, it is about the trust, how people can transparently see both quantitative and qualitative issues within the same research inquiry.

On the other validation, the meta-inferences of the findings must be clear sequentially or concurrently. It is about the confidence of the findings, what are the findings represents quantitatively and qualitatively the real world. Briefly, the findings of a mixed methods study can be validated based on its both quantitative and qualitative findings.

Following the prior comments, I think, please look at the research design. What is the design presents the combination of both quantitative and qualitative methods across the research programs, its methodological parts, and the meta-inferences within the same research inquiry?

Hey Michaelle,  I can't add any better insight or advice to the previous submissions.

I hope you are familiar with and have read some of the work done by Claude Steele.

Best regards,

Terry  

Dear Michaelle,

coming from a German background I first would like to apologize for my English.

Concerning the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods in the field of social research, I see four points I would like to share with you: 1.) often it is the other way around as you are planning to do: starting with interviews (qualitative method) and developing from these interviews hypothesis for the survey (quantitative part). 2.) starting with interviews, analysis of the interviews, going back to the field, making the next interviews, analysis, interviews.... and so on; from each step to the next: developing new research questions (grounded theory in a very short summary); 3.) having used quantitative and qualitative methods more or less during the same period of the research project, you can make the analysis via triangulation of both parts of the research project by respecting a clear defined analysis by comparing the results and bringing them into a relation and, let us say, a communication to each other; 4.) concerning your shortly mentioned project I would like to propose to think about the possibility to speak from "mixed methods research design" instead of "mixed design", which is, as far as I know, more used for factor analysis. 

Hopefully, my answer was a little bit helpful for you. Anyway, good luck for you and your project.

Best regards,

Christel Baltes-Löhr