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	طرح ترکیبی اکتشافی ترتیبی تعبیه‌شده	طرح روش تحقیق ترکیبی توالی‌گرا تبیینی
حوزه	طراحی پژوهش	طراحی پژوهش
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	2000s–2010s	2007 (formalized in Creswell & Plano Clark's mixed methods typology)
پدیدآور	Creswell & Plano Clark (embedded and exploratory sequential variants codified)	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark
نوع	Mixed methods research design	Mixed methods research design
منبع بنیادین	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. (2018). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (3rd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1483344379
نام‌های دیگر	embedded-exploratory design, nested exploratory sequential design, qual-first embedded design, QUAN(qual) exploratory sequential	explanatory sequential design, QUAN → qual design, two-phase explanatory design, sequential explanatory design
مرتبط	6	6
خلاصه	An embedded exploratory sequential mixed methods design opens with a qualitative phase that explores an understudied phenomenon, then embeds a secondary quantitative strand within or alongside that primary qualitative work. The qualitative findings guide what is measured quantitatively, while the embedded quantitative data provide additional scope or precision without displacing the qualitative logic driving the study.	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.