This article discusses some procedural issues related to the mixed-methods sequential explanatory design, which implies collecting and analyzing quantitative and then qualitative data in two consecutive phases within one study. Such issues include deciding on the priority or weight given to the quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis in the study, the sequence of the data collection and analysis, and the stage/stages in the research process at which the quantitative and qualitative data are connected and the results are integrated. The article provides a methodological overview of priority, implementation, and mixing in the sequential explanatory design and offers some practical guidance in addressing those issues. It also outlines the steps for graphically representing the procedures in a mixed-methods study. A mixed-methods sequential explanatory study of doctoral students’ persistence in a distance-learning program in educational leadership is used to illustrate the methodological discussion.

Nataliya V. Ivankova

John W. Creswell

Sheldon L. Stick

Field Methods

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Field Methods (formerly Cultural Anthropology Methods) is dedicated to articles about the methods used by field workers in the social and behavioral sciences and humanities for collecting, managing, and analyzing data about human thought and behavior in the natural world. Articles should focus on innovations and issues in the methods used, rather than on reporting research or theoretical/epistemological questions about research. We welcome high-quality articles using qualitative and quantitative methods—from scientific or interpretative traditions—dealing with data collection and analysis in applied and scholarly research from writers in the social sciences, humanities, and related professions.

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Using Mixed-Methods Sequential Explanatory Design: From Theory to Practice

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