Blending and Adapting Research Approaches

Blending and Adapting Research Approaches

Blended Research Design

Blended research design refers to a research approach that consciously mixes research methods in an effort to get a quality and breadth of information that reflects the complexity of the setting being studied. Using the history of technological case studies as an example, the following entry describes the progression toward a blended research design that includes both qualitative and quantitative components in the case study approach (Patton, 2002).

The blended research design attempts to combine the most informative aspects of qualitative and quantitative case study data. Triangulating a range of indicators from ...