Summer.
New issue of New Directions for Evaluation on Mixed Methods in evaluation in my hands.
Finally some time to invest in trying to better understand what Mixed
Methods approach is all about. So I decided I will read it thoroughly
and try to picture some kind of outline. But as usual, I ended up doing a
visual one…
As a newcomer to Evaluation and Social sciences (my background is in Economics),
I must confess I am a bit confused about this topic. For me,
Quantitative is simply about numbers and Qualitative is about stances
and nuances. Therefore, an inquiry can be for me both Qualitative and
Quantitative, since its questions can be answered both with figures or
sentences, for example… On the other hand, coding speeches from a
significant number of interviews can produce some statistics… So, I
can´t think of any method exclusively Quali or Quanti… In my mind, they
are already mixed! ;-S
However, here is what I understood of this interesting issue (to read
it with its intended image quality you will maybe need to click on the
image and then download it with the right button option “Save image
as”):
