A researcher is interested in examining students' understanding and recall of texts. She gives students a series of texts to rea
d (either essays or stories matched on critical variables such as length and grade level and presented randomly) and trains assistants to score and count up the exact number of correct "idea units" (or unique phrases) students recall from each text. The researcher also interviews students after they have read each text to examine their thoughts on why each was easy or difficult to understand. The researcher records students' responses and trains assistants to examine students' answers for different themes. The researcher's study would fit best into the category of:
Mixed-Method study is a research study or appoach that involves bringing together or integrating/mixing of both quantitative and qualitative data during research data collection, analysis, discussion or any investigative process and systematic inquiry. It consist of four different types and also it aimed to to expand and strengthen the conclusions of any research study. It also helps in the researcher conducting an in-depth studies it requires a lot of training and being able to know all the methodology that is being used.
