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	การออกแบบการวิจัยแบบผสมผสานลำดับขั้นที่เน้นคุณภาพเป็นหลัก	ระเบียบวิธีวิจัยแบบผสมผสานเชิงอธิบายแบบลำดับขั้น
สาขาวิชา	การออกแบบการวิจัย	การออกแบบการวิจัย
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	2000s–2010s	2007 (formalized in Creswell & Plano Clark's mixed methods typology)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Creswell & Plano Clark; Teddlie & Tashakkori	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark
ประเภท	Mixed methods research design	Mixed methods research design
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	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: 978-1483344379
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	QUAL-priority sequential design, qualitative-dominant sequential design, qual-first sequential mixed methods, sequential exploratory qualitative-priority design	explanatory sequential design, QUAN → qual design, two-phase explanatory design, sequential explanatory design
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	5	6
สรุป	Sequential qualitative-priority mixed design is a two-phase mixed methods approach in which a qualitative strand is conducted first and carries greater weight in the overall study. The quantitative phase follows and serves to extend, test, or generalize the qualitative findings. The QUAL-first, QUAL-dominant logic makes this design well suited to exploratory research where theory or instruments are underdeveloped and must be grounded in participants' own words before being scaled up.	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.