השוואת שיטות

	עיצוב מחקר מעורב שיטתי חלוצי	מערך מחקר משולב של משולש בו-זמני
תחום	תכנון מחקר	תכנון מחקר
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1990s–2000s (codified by ~2007)	2007 (formally named in Creswell & Plano Clark, 1st ed.)
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. (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
כינויים	QUAL → QUAN design, exploratory sequential design, instrument-development design, theory-building mixed methods	convergent parallel design, triangulation design, QUAN+QUAL concurrent design, simultaneous triangulation
קשורות	6	5
תקציר	The exploratory sequential mixed methods design is a two-phase research framework in which a qualitative phase is conducted first to explore a poorly understood phenomenon, and the findings then inform a subsequent quantitative phase — typically to develop and test a survey instrument, measure a theory, or generalize qualitative insights to a larger population. The qualitative strand guides what is measured; the quantitative strand tests or extends those findings at scale.	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.