Mixed Methods in VET Research: Usage and Quality

Autor/in	Cameron, Roslyn
Titel	Mixed Methods in VET Research: Usage and Quality
Quelle	In: International Journal of Training Research, 8 (2010) 1, S.25-39 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1448-0220
Schlagwörter	Vocational Education; Theories; Literature Reviews; Research Reports; Foreign Countries; Research Methodology; Educational Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Theory; Theorie; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Ausland; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung
Abstract	Mixed methods had been heralded as the third methodological movement with several authorities from across an array of discipline fields contributing to a growing body of literature and theoretical developments. The discipline fields which are showing high levels of acceptance for mixed methods are those related to education, health and nursing, social and behavioural sciences and business/management disciplines. This third methodological movement is now beginning to address issues of quality in the reporting of mixed methods studies. The movement is beginning to question whether researchers utilising mixed methods have gone beyond the one dimensional and relatively rudimentary concept of triangulation to embrace the more complex designs and methodological theory being developed. The aim of the study is to explore the use and quality of mixed methods in vocational education research through a systematic review of a specific sample of vocational education and training (VET) based research. The paper concludes with a call for mixed methods in higher degree research training curricula and a need for established VET researchers to engage with the mixed methods foundational literature and the new and more complex theoretical developments that are emerging. (As Provided).
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