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	طرح روش تحقیق ترکیبی توالی‌گرا تبیینی	طراحی چندمرحله‌ای روش‌های ترکیبی
حوزه	طراحی پژوهش	طراحی پژوهش
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	2007 (formalized in Creswell & Plano Clark's mixed methods typology)	2007 (first edition of Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research)
پدیدآور	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark	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: 978-1483substitute
نام‌های دیگر	explanatory sequential design, QUAN → qual design, two-phase explanatory design, sequential explanatory design	multiphase design, multiproject mixed methods, programmatic mixed methods, multistage mixed methods
مرتبط	6	6
خلاصه	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 multiphase mixed methods design is a sustained research program in which quantitative and qualitative strands are combined across three or more sequential phases — or across multiple related projects — to address a central program objective. Each phase builds on the prior phase's findings, making the design well-suited to long-term evaluation, intervention development, and large-scale program assessment where a single data-collection cycle cannot fully address the complexity of the research problem.