Using Simple and Complex Mixed Methods Research Designs to Understand Research in Information Science

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Author(s): Patrick Ngulube (University of South Africa, South Africa)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 27
Source title: Handbook of Research on Mixed Methods Research in Information Science
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Patrick Ngulube (University of South Africa, South Africa)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8844-4.ch002

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Research Methods

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Mixed methods research combines qualitative and quantitative research approaches to describe multiple realities. After identifying a research problem and concluding that it can be comprehensively addressed by collecting quantitative and qualitative data concurrently or in phases, a researcher may choose to either use simple or advanced mixed methods designs. Studies have demonstrated that mixed methods research is not commonplace in library and information science research. The two-eyed seeing principles are given as an example of how indigenous theories and knowledge systems can be combined with Anglo-Saxon philosophical assumptions that dominate the mixed methods research movement to facilitate the production of knowledge that is contextually relevant and useful to the indigenous environment.

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