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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"explanatory sequential design"”.
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Understanding the civic role of community colleges: assessing factors that influence leadership decision-making
… mixed methods research with an explanatory sequential design, survey data from community college leaders in the Desert Southwest United States informed follow-up qualitative interviews. Findings indicate that decision-making is shaped by a combination of institutional …
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Presenting a Systematic Literature Review Method Using a Mixed-Methods Design and its Application to Mind Map Research
… by incorporating a unique mixed-methods design into the well-established SLR process. The proposed approach, identified as Mixed-Methods Based Systematic Literature Review (MMB-SLR), not only provides researchers with a broader perspective on their research content compared to traditional …
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Exploring grade 12 learners’ graphical interpretation of rate and extent of reaction: a case study of King Cetshwayo district grade 12 learners
… and extent of reaction topic. A mixed-method explanatory sequential design was adopted for this study. A purposive sampling technique was used to sample participants from the accessible population in King Cetshwayo District KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. One-hundred and forty-six …
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Exploring competence development through the transfer of specialist knowledge and skills from engineering lecturers to students in South African Technical and Vocational Education and Training colleges: A COMET study
… complex, work-related problems. A mixed method, explanatory sequential design comprising qualitative and quantitative research methods was adopted. Data were gathered from 275 students and 22 lecturers at five public TVET colleges. Two COMET large-scale open-ended learning tasks and a test task …
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Abusive Supervision and Its Consequences for Employees in the Hong Kong Hotel Industry
… This study employs a mixed-methods explanatory sequential design to investigate the prevalence of abusive supervision in Hong Kong hotels against the independent variables of job satisfaction and trust. Quantitative data was gathered from 120 hotel employees using established scales …
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Effects of the Green Life Nature Education Program for 4th Grade Students Who Attend Bay Area Title One Schools: a Mixed-methods Study
<p>This explanatory sequential design mixed-methods evaluation measures the effects of the GLNE program on (a) students’ personal and social skills (b) students’ stewardship of the environment (c) students’ knowledge and understanding of science concepts. Quantitative survey data and qualitative …
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Relationships Between and Student Perceptions of Self-efficacy, Growth Mindset, and Mathematics Identity of Adolescents in a Rural South Georgia Charter School
… factors make one a math person. The study was an explanatory sequential design consisting of an online survey followed by student interviews. Ninety-one students participated in the survey. Multiple linear regression was used to determine whether a correlation existed between the variables as well …
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Surveillance Gone Too Far? Individual Reactions to the Use of Drones in Urban Areas.
… capabilities. Through an intervention explanatory sequential design 80 participants (50F/30M) in South Eastern Ontario, Canada, were either exposed to a UAV (Experimental = 40) or not (Control = 40) and were given a word association task. From these participants, a subsample of 16 (F=7, …
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Teachers’ Perceptions of One-to-One Laptop Initiative for Increased Learner Communication and Collaboration Skills
… the data that answered the research questions. Explanatory sequential design was used to design, collect, analyze, and report the study’s findings. Quantitative data as Likert scale survey was sent to all the eligible forty-one participants, which were middle school teachers. Thirty-three …
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Sustaining family child care providers' psychosocial wellness
… of qualitative interviews (N = 24) in an explanatory sequential design (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2007) Multivariate analyses of administrative survey data revealed that higher levels of psychosocial stress predicted greater likelihood of consideration of exit from FCC work. The strength of …
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Readiness for research data management in the life sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand
… recommendations. A mixed methods approach and an explanatory sequential design were used to achieve the research objectives. For the quantitative phase of research, an online questionnaire was used to collect data. As the total target population (282) was not big, a census was conducted. The …
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A Mixed Methods Study Evaluating Strategies used in Organizational Visioning
… and delayed post assessments tests. Through the explanatory sequential design, quantitative data evaluated the change in organizational commitment and vision clarity as a result of the interventions; while, qualitative data further explored participants\' perception of the intervention process …
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The association between disclosure and adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among adolescents living with HIV in Windhoek, Khomas region, Namibia
… living with HIV. A mixed method approach with an explanatory sequential design was employed. The quantitative component used an unmatched case-control design with a 1:1 ratio, while the qualitative component utilized an exploratory design to complement the quantitative analysis. The study …
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Blended Learning and Bottlenecks in the California State University System: An Empirical Look at the Importance of Demographic and Performance Analytics
… a popular blended learning psychology course, an explanatory sequential design was used to study 18,254 students enrolled in the course between 2006 and 2014. In the initial quantitative part of the design, logistic regression and traditional regression analysis were used to determine the …
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School Administrator Preparation in Special Education: A Cross-Case Analysis
… in their schools.</p> <p>This study utilized an explanatory sequential design to study Southern California school principals’ special education preparation. During the first phase of the study, the researcher emailed surveys to administrators who were selected using a stratified random sampling …
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An Explanatory Sequential Study of Cadet Commitment at the United States Air Force Academy
… <p>To fill this gap, this study used an explanatory-sequential design by first employing a survey to quantitatively measure how committed cadets are to their development as leaders of character and to USAFA as an organization and then to determine which factors are associated with …
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An Exploratory Case Study Of Leadership Practices That Enable International Schools To Become Highly Effective and Learning Progressive Environments
… them.</p> <p>This mixed-method study used an explanatory sequential design, beginning with a survey of 122 teachers based on the HRS model (Marzano et al., 2014), where teachers were asked to respond to a series of statements designed to measure the case-study school’s effectiveness and the …
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Success Factors for the Leadership of International Humanitarian and Development Organisations in South Asia
… and uses a mixed methods approach, applying the explanatory sequential design (a quantitative approach followed subsequently by a qualitative approach). The main theories, concepts and definitions of leadership, and professionalism, and their relevance for IHDO leadership in South Asia are …
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Cultural Competence--Does It Matter?: Lessons from a Mixed-Methods Study of Wraparound Practice
… competence and caregivers' reported stress. An explanatory sequential design was used. The quantitative phase was completed first. Survey methodology was used to measure reported cultural competence, wraparound fidelity, satisfaction with the wraparound process, and parental stress. Facilitators …
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Assessment of Method Effects of Keying and Wording in Instruments: A Mixed-Methods Explanatory Sequential Study
… instruments. By employing a mixed methods explanatory sequential design, the effects of keying and wording in two psychometric assessments were examined and validated. Those two self-report psychometric assessments were the Effortful Control assessment (Ellis & Rothbart, 2001) and the Grit …
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