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	Σχεδιασμός Επεξηγηματικών Διαδοχικών Μεικτών Μεθόδων	Σχεδιασμός Μικτών Μεθόδων με Ταυτόχρονη Τριγωνοποίηση
Πεδίο	Ερευνητικός Σχεδιασμός	Ερευνητικός Σχεδιασμός
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2007 (formalized in Creswell & Plano Clark's mixed methods typology)	2007 (formally named in Creswell & Plano Clark, 1st ed.)
Δημιουργός	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark
Τύπος	Mixed methods research design	Mixed methods research design
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2018). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (3rd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1483344379	Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2011). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (2nd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1412975179
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	explanatory sequential design, QUAN → qual design, two-phase explanatory design, sequential explanatory design	convergent parallel design, triangulation design, QUAN+QUAL concurrent design, simultaneous triangulation
Συναφείς	6	5
Σύνοψη	The explanatory sequential mixed methods design is a two-phase research approach in which a quantitative study is conducted first, and qualitative data are then collected specifically to help explain or elaborate the initial quantitative results. The quantitative phase carries greater priority; the qualitative phase is purposefully built around the findings — such as surprising results, outliers, or statistically significant relationships — that need deeper interpretation.	The concurrent triangulation mixed methods design collects quantitative and qualitative data simultaneously, analyzes each strand independently, and then merges the results to assess whether the two data sources corroborate one another. Often called the convergent parallel design, it is one of the foundational configurations in mixed methods research and is chosen specifically when the researcher wants to cross-validate or triangulate findings from two distinct methodological traditions.