השוואת שיטות

	מערך מחקר משולב של משולש בו-זמני	תכנון שיטות מעורבות הסברי-רצפי
תחום	תכנון מחקר	תכנון מחקר
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	2007 (formally named in Creswell & Plano Clark, 1st ed.)	2007 (formalized in Creswell & Plano Clark's mixed methods typology)
הוגה השיטה	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark
סוג	Mixed methods research design	Mixed methods research design
מקור מכונן	Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2011). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (2nd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1412975179	Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2018). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (3rd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1483344379
כינויים	convergent parallel design, triangulation design, QUAN+QUAL concurrent design, simultaneous triangulation	explanatory sequential design, QUAN → qual design, two-phase explanatory design, sequential explanatory design
קשורות	5	6
תקציר	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.	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.