Mixed methods: positivists are from Mars, constructivists are from Venus

Authors:
Raymond Lister
Affiliations:
-
Venue:
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Year:
2005

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Abstract

You can't work in Computer Science Education Research for very long without stumbling into a religious war over qualitative versus quantitative methods. Recently, I read a general education paper [1] where the authors were brave (or foolish) enough to advocate "mixed methods". That is, they advocate the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods within a single study.