Compară metode

	Designul secvențial exploratoriu mixt	Design Mixt Concurrent Încapsulat
Domeniu	Design de cercetare	Design de cercetare
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anul apariției	1990s–2000s (codified by ~2007)	2003–2007
Autorul original	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark
Tip	Mixed methods research design	Mixed methods research design
Sursa seminală	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
Denumiri alternative	QUAL → QUAN design, exploratory sequential design, instrument-development design, theory-building mixed methods	embedded mixed methods, nested mixed methods design, concurrent nested design, CEMM
Înrudite	6	6
Rezumat	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 embedded mixed methods design collects quantitative and qualitative data at the same time, but assigns unequal priority to the two strands: one (usually quantitative) serves as the primary study, while the other (usually qualitative) is nested inside it to answer a supplementary question. The embedded strand does not stand alone; it provides a different perspective on the same phenomenon within a single unified study.