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	Utvärderingsorienterad mixed methods-meta-inferens	Konkurrent triangulerings design med blandade metoder
Ämnesområde	Forskningsdesign	Forskningsdesign
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	2000s–2010s	2007 (formally named in Creswell & Plano Clark, 1st ed.)
Upphovsperson	Abbas Tashakkori and Charles Teddlie (meta-inference); evaluation-oriented framing associated with Donna M. Mertens and Jennifer C. Greene	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark
Typ	Mixed methods research design variant	Mixed methods research design
Ursprungskälla	Tashakkori, A., & Teddlie, C. (Eds.). (2010). SAGE Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social and Behavioral Research (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications. ISBN: 978-1412972666	Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2011). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (2nd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1412975179
Alias	evaluation MMR meta-inference, evaluation-focused meta-inference, mixed methods evaluation inference, meta-inference in evaluation research	convergent parallel design, triangulation design, QUAN+QUAL concurrent design, simultaneous triangulation
Närliggande	5	5
Sammanfattning	Evaluation-oriented mixed methods meta-inference is a rigorous concluding process in program evaluation research in which the researcher integrates inferences drawn from both quantitative and qualitative strands of a mixed methods study into a single, coherent, higher-order conclusion. This meta-inference is explicitly anchored to evaluation questions — such as program worth, merit, or impact — and is judged by dual quality criteria: inferential consistency and interpretive consistency across strands.	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.