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SAMPLING IN MIXED RESEARCH sampling in mixed research builds on your knowledge of sampling in quantitative and qualitative research. Typically, the researcher will select the quantitative sample using one of the quantitative sampling techniques and the qualitative sample using one of the qualitative sampling techniques. Sampling in mixed research can be classified into “mixed sampling designs.” Mixed sampling designs are classified according to two major criteria : The first criterion is called time orientation. Time orientation is provided by the answer to this question: “Do the quantitative and qualitative phases occur concurrently or sequentially?” In a concurrent time orientation, the data are collected for the quantitative and qualitative phases of the study at approximately the same time .                        Both sets of data are interpreted du...
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Sampling in mixed research

SAMPLING IN MIXED RESEARCH Mixed methods sampling requires an understanding and acknowledge of the sampling strategies that occur in QUAN AND QUAL research. Probability sampling techniques are used most often QUAN research to obtain a sample that most accurately represent the entire population .Although convenience sampling is sometimes used QUAL AND QUAN research. It includes samples that are most available to the researcher. This way not be representative of the population being studied and may yield biased data. Because techniques for mixed methods include choosing participants for a study using both probability and purposive sampling, a comparison of purposive and probability sampling . Definition [1] Where a  sample  plan envisages the use of two or more basic  methods of  sampling  it is termed  mixed sampling . For example, in a multistage  sample , if the  sampling  units at one stage are drawn at random and those at another...
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