Question

Imagine you are designing a mixed methods study investigating what it is like to be a 2nd degree accelerated BSN student. You have two research questions in this mixed methods study. You write the first question as “What is the most common 1st bachelor’s degree of accelerated BSN students?” Based on this research design, write a second research question. (HINT What are the two types of research methods in a mixed methods research design? What type of question will complement your first question to get the responses you want? USE YOUR TEXT)

Answer 1

1. The second research question is:

What is the best quality 1st bachelor’s degree of accelerated BSN students?

This question is the qualitative research complementary question of the given quantitative research question. These are the two types of research methods in a mixed methods research design. The qualitative research question will complement the first question, the quantitative research question, to get the required response.

This is a research methodology used to conduct research by collecting, analyzing, and integrating quantitative and qualitative research. This research methodology is used when this integration gives a better understanding and corroboration of the research problem than when each one is used alone. Quantitative data is closed-end information. The analysis of quantitative data consists of statistically analyzing data collected on instruments like questionnaires or checklists to answer research questions or to test hypotheses. Qualitative data is open-ended information that the researcher collects through focus groups, interviews, and observations. The qualitative data analysis typically aggregates into categories of information and presents a multitude of ideas from data collection.