Education and Educational Research: Connecting Mixed-Methods as an Education Research Strategy

Program Goal

The goal of the Educational Research Lecture Series is to improve the quantity and rigor of educational research at Baystate to foster innovative education for our health care professionals and support high quality care of current and future patients.

Learner Objectives

By participating in this continuing education program, the attendee should be able to:

• Discuss the benefits and limitations to single-method research
• Identify opportunities for mixed-methods research in education

Connecting mixed methods as an education research strategy.

AM Last Page: Understanding qualitative and quantitative research paradigms in academic medicine.

Research design: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches (3rd ed).

Toward a conceptual framework for mixed method evaluation designs.

Mixed methods research: A research paradigm whose time has come.

Using mixed methods research in medical education: basic guidelines for researchers.