Please I need your guidance. I am doing a study on eliciting students’ misconceptions in electric circuit. I intend using a four-tier diagnostic test instrument to elicit the students’ misconceptions. Those identified to have misconceptions from the four-tier test are subjected to an interview using a semi-structure interview items to probe further on their misconceptions and if possible see if other forms of misconceptions could be unraveled. Data from the both instruments will analyzed to answer my research questions. Please which type of mixed method design could best fit this study?
At a very basic level, given your description, this sounds to me like an explanatory sequential design.
I agree that this sounds like an explanatory sequential design (QUAN --> qual), where the goal of the follow-up qualitative study is to help understand the results of the original quantitative study.
Indeed, it sounds like an explanatory sequential design that starts with a quantitative data collection and analysis stage, followed by the second stage of qualitative data collection and analysis. You could check out the book by DeCuir-Gunby and Schutz (2017) for practical guidance. You might also go through the paper by Thornberg et al. (2020) and see how they applied the explanatory sequential design in their research. Here are the references.
DeCuir-Gunby, J., & Schutz, P. (2017). Developing a mixed methods proposal: A practical guide for beginning researchers. SAGE Publications, Inc. https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483399980
Thornberg, R., Forsberg, C., Chiriac, E. H., & Bjereld, Y. (2020). Teacher-student relationship quality and student engagement: A sequential explanatory mixed-methods study. Research Papers in Education, 0(0), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2020.1864772
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