Mix Method Is Not Just Mixing Data: Understand the design so you don't go in the wrong direction

Mixed Methods research is one of the approaches most popular with students and researchers at various universities. Almost every research proposal now includes the term mixed methods. Ironic, the more popular a method becomes, the more often it is misunderstood. A phenomenon that is often encountered is researchers conducting interviews, distribute questionnaires, then concluded that the research had used mixed methods.…

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Universities Will Never Excel If Their Citizens Only Come to Teach

Every time accreditation results are announced or university rankings are released, almost all campuses reacted the same way. There are those who are proud because they have received a superior title, some were disappointed because they had not reached the target, and there are also those who immediately develop various strategies to increase value in the following period. Sadly, discussions often stop at the issue of instruments, document,…

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R&D, MIXED METHODS, AND THE PRAGMATIC PARADIGM: PTKIN SCIENTIFIC INTEGRATION PATH

Methodological debates in the academic world often get bogged down in classical questions: which one is superior, quantitative or qualitative? This question is actually increasingly losing relevance as the world faces increasingly complex problems. Society does not need research that only produces paradigm debates, but research that is able to solve real problems through testable innovation, implemented, and developed. In…

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Why Pragmatism Doesn't Make Mixed Methods Weak: When Pragmatism is Misunderstood

In thesis and dissertation courtrooms, Criticism of mixed methods research is almost always repeated. This research is considered less robust because it uses pragmatism as a philosophical basis. The logic is simple. Quantitative research has legitimacy through positivism. Qualitative research gets its footing from interpretivism or postpositivism. Meanwhile, mixed methods are considered to have lost identity because they combine two approaches that are considered not…

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