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	การออกแบบการวิจัยแบบผสมผสานเชิงปริมาณเป็นหลักแบบลำดับขั้น	ระเบียบวิธีวิจัยแบบผสมผสานเชิงอธิบายแบบลำดับขั้น
สาขาวิชา	การออกแบบการวิจัย	การออกแบบการวิจัย
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	2007 (first edition of Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research)	2007 (formalized in Creswell & Plano Clark's mixed methods typology)
ผู้ริเริ่ม	John W. Creswell & Vicki L. Plano Clark	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 Publications. ISBN: 978-1483344379	Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2018). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (3rd ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1483344379
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	QUAN-dominant sequential design, quantitative-priority sequential MMR, quan-first sequential mixed methods, quantitative-led sequential design	explanatory sequential design, QUAN → qual design, two-phase explanatory design, sequential explanatory design
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	6
สรุป	The sequential quantitative-priority mixed design collects and analyzes quantitative data first, then follows with a qualitative strand to elaborate, explain, or contextualize the quantitative findings. The quantitative component is given greater weight in the overall study, meaning the primary research questions and conclusions are primarily grounded in the quantitative evidence, with the qualitative strand playing a supplementary, explanatory role.	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.