Smith, N. J, & Bhattacharya, K. (2013). Practical wisdom of tool and task: Meeting the demands of the method with digital tools in qualitatively driven mixed methods studies. In S. Hai-Jew (Ed.), Enhancing qualitative and mixed methods research with technology (pp. 210-230). IGI Global. http://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6493-7.ch009

Abstract:

“The purpose of this chapter is to explain the effective use of digital tools to display and analyze mixed methods data and to identify the challenges and possibilities of doing a qualitatively driven mixed methods study of technology use in education. To frame this chapter, examples from a qualitatively driven mixed methods study of doctoral students, which explored how the use of mobile technology affected engagement in the class experience, are presented. Additionally, the authors discuss the limits, implications, and possibilities of inductively driven mixed methods, while dealing with issues of academic rigor and trustworthiness using Morse and Niehaus’s (2009) guidelines for mixed methods research design and the ways in which digital tools enhance rigor and trustworthiness.” 

Editors’ note: The TPACK construct was used to analyze qualitative and quantitative data in the study described in this chapter.