Journal
QUALITY & QUANTITY
Volume 39, Issue 3, Pages 267-296Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-004-1670-0
Keywords
research methods courses; teaching research; qualitative research; quantitative research; mixed methods; pragmatist researcher
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The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence that the debate between quantitative and qualitative is divisive and, hence, counterproductive for advancing the social and behavioral science field. We advocate that all graduate students learn to utilize and to appreciate both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. As such, students will develop into pragmatist researchers who are able to utilize both quantitative and qualitative techniques when conducting research. We contend that the best way to accomplish this is by eliminating quantitative research methodology and qualitative research methodology courses from curricula and replacing these with research methodology courses at different levels that simultaneously teach both quantitative and qualitative techniques within a mixed methodological framework.
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