This will be a discussion post for my doctoral mixed methods research class. You must support your response with peer-reviewed articles, but can also cite any of the provided resources. For this particular assignment, using Tashakkori, A., Johnson, R.B., & Teddlie, C. (2020). Foundations of mixed methods research: Integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches in the social and behavioral sciences (2nd ed.) Sage. (ISBN: 9781506350301)
Ch. 5, and all other provided resources, respond to the following topic:
Read Cresswell’s Conducting a Good Observation (attached in files). In your graduate experience, you will be expected to present your research ideas and results. For data #6, you are asked to watch one Ted Talk on the topic of your choice and observe ways in which a speaker engages an audience during the presentation. While you are observing, focus on what techniques and strategies are being used to make the presentation engaging and take notes on these ways of engaging. Then post this field note here.
How do you understand the meaning of “emergent designs”? What role do you think an emergent design could play in your research?
You can use any TED talk of your choosing.
Textbooks, blogs, magazine or internet articles, book chapters, or special reports, do not count toward the peer-reviewed minimum. Connections to the peer reviewed references should be used throughout your writing with in-text citations and matching reference citations.
For your reference, I am a healthy, white 34-year old female from Kentucky. I am extremely active and spend a lot of time working out and eating healthy food. Also, I am a college professor in the Exercise Science department and own an online fitness and nutrition coaching business. My dissertation topic is the effect of daily vs. weekly check-ins for adherence in an online fitness & nutrition coaching program ). Please refer to this link for further explanation regarding my dissertation topic (
I have attached the recommended resources to elaborate on the assignment expectations. Skim chapters by specifically focusing their reading on: (a) the paradigm and philosophical stance they most closely align with, and (b) how their philosophy and paradigm compares to other approaches and where it stands in the larger research community. Make sure to provide substantial evidence from scholarly resources and refrain from making generalized statements. Textbooks, blogs, magazine or internet articles, book chapters, or special reports, do not count toward scholarly resources.
