Postgraduate students' understanding of mixed methods research design at the proposal stage

Mabila, Thembinkosi

doi:10.20853/31-5-1498

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“…Undergraduate physics students were purposively selected from four Ugandan universities: the Islamic University of Uganda, Busitema University, Kyambogo University, and Kampala International University. The participants in this study were chosen as a purposive sample since they were undergraduate students enrolled in their first semester (Mabila, 2017). Because the BSE is offered to both men and women at all Ugandan universities, the sample included both genders.…”

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Development of a Circular Motion Concept Inventory for Use in Ugandan Science Education

Kirya¹,

Mashood²,

Yadav³

2024

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In this study, we administered and evaluated circular motion concept question items with a view to developing an inventory suitable for the Ugandan context. Before administering the circular concept items, six physics experts and ten undergraduate physics students carried out the face and content validation. One hundred eighteen undergraduate students responded to the 42 circular motion concept items. The data were analysed using the classical test theory (CTT) and item response curve (IRC) analyses. We calculated the difficulty level and index of discrimination and gauged the distraction efficiency of items. The IRCs revealed insights that were not evident from those provided by the CTT. Based on the IRCs, the circular concept items are classified into three categories: efficient, moderately efficient, and inefficient. This helped us better evaluate the quality of the items and their appropriateness for the population under consideration. We ended up with 22 circular motion concept question items which we call the circular motion concept inventory (CMCI). This inventory is particularly relevant to Ugandan context and may be useful to other countries in the East African region which share similar syllabi.

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Development of a Circular Motion Concept Inventory for Use in Ugandan Science Education

Kirya¹,

Mashood²,

Yadav³

2024

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“…Mixed methods research prevalence studies have been conducted in many fields in South Africa, including EMS (Ngulube & Ngulube 2015), information science (Ngulube, Mokwatlo & Ndwandwe 2009;Ngulube & Ukwoma 2021), psychology (Barnes 2012), social sciences (Barnes 2019) and education (Mabila 2017). These studies highlight the underrepresentation of MMR in various fields.…”

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Are we there yet? Mixed methods research in the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences

Ngulube

2022

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Orientation: In 2015, a study was conducted to explore the prevalence of mixed methods research (MMR) in the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences (SAJEMS) between 2003 and 2011. This study builds upon that study to establish the extent to which the use of MMR has developed in SAJEMS.Research purpose: The purpose of this research is to explore and compare the levels of adoption of MMR in the present study to the one reported in the study of 2015.Motivation for the study: This study goes beyond the one of 2015 by exploring methodological transparency in the use of MMR by contributors to the Journal and answers the question: are we there yet?Research design, approach and method: The study analysed the methodology used by articles published in SAJEMS from 2012 to 2019. Content analysis was conducted on a total of 362 articles published in SAJEMS. Each of the nine articles identified as utilising MMR was analysed based on the indicators of use of MMR in the extant literature.Main findings: The findings show that studies neither stated the appropriateness of mixed methods nor specified the designs. Integration was done by a few articles in a limited way. The passing of 8 years has not brought about any difference in the results of the use of MMR in SAJEMS. The use of MMR remains underrepresented. It is evident that SAJEMS is not there yet.Practical/managerial implications: This article raises the need for methodological pluralism as an alternative to quantitative and qualitative methodologies.Contribution/value-add: Researchers are informed of the advantages of using MMR and incorporating the third methodological movement to obtain superior results.

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“…Though mixed research is highly associated with pragmatism, it can still utilise other paradigms such as positivism and interpretivism. Mabila (2017) citing Creswell (2014) outline core features of mixed research as collection of both QUAL and QUAN strands of data, integration of the strands of data, analysis of both the strands of data, persuasive and rigorous procedures for both strands of data, use mixed design and approach to research with sound philosophical foundation. A number of papers and theses document and discuss mixed research usage in sketchy lines under the research methodology section.…”

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“…With almost striking similarity, Dewasiri et al (2018) notes mixed research gaps as poor identification of mixed methods and design, lack of identification of rationale and poorly formulated or non-formulated questions. Mabila (2017) did a study on post graduate students in South Africa and found out that many studies have conflicting and divergent interpretation of mixed research, gave no philosophical foundation for choosing mixed research and had insufficient mixed research designs. On top of the identified issues, this article investigates traceability of both QUAL and QUAN strands from the point of integration of these strands as well as the entire research process.…”

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Quality in Mixed Human Resource Management Research: Evidence from Published Literature

Mutua

2022

Asia-Pacific Journal of Management Research and Innovation

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The study focuses on several issues that affect methodological rigour of mixed research. The article aims at providing illumination and clarity on continued use of terminologies in mixed research in a confusing manner. Research paradigms should conduct from time-to-time inward introspection to ascertain quality of research papers. This article attempts to ascertain quality of published mixed research. The article investigates several dimensions of quality in mixed Human Resource Management (HRM) research and then gives recommendations to improve research practice. It dwells on ignored issues in quality of mixed research such as conceptual and theoretical framework, catapulting them to the high table of quality discourse in mixed research. As a pivotal divergence from previous studies, traceability as an integral mixed research quality dimension is given prominence. This article utilises quantitative and qualitative document review guides to collect data from published journal papers in HRM. The study found that there are areas of improvement in the conduct of mixed HRM studies and proposes a framework that can act as a guide in evaluating quality criteria. Mixed research is marginalised in HRM literature owing to the small percentage of published papers.

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Postgraduate students' understanding of mixed methods research design at the proposal stage

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

Development of a Circular Motion Concept Inventory for Use in Ugandan Science Education

Development of a Circular Motion Concept Inventory for Use in Ugandan Science Education

Are we there yet? Mixed methods research in the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences

Quality in Mixed Human Resource Management Research: Evidence from Published Literature

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