If a researcher used a sample then interviewed part of that sample,leading to the development of a structure questionnaire and then administered it to a different random sample,the diagram for that research would be written as ______.
A)(QUAL+QUAN)→(QUAL+QUAN)
B)(QUAL→QUAN)→(QUAL→QUAN)
C)(QUAL+QUAN)→(QUAL→QUAN)
D)(QUAL→QUAN)→(QUAL+QUAN)

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The researcher starts with a qualitative approach by interviewing a part of the sample, then develops a structured questionnaire based on these interviews (a quantitative tool), and finally administers this questionnaire to a different sample. This process is a transition from qualitative to quantitative in the first phase (QUAL→QUAN), followed by applying the developed quantitative tool to a new sample without reverting to qualitative methods, hence (QUAL→QUAN)→(QUAL+QUAN).

If a Researcher Used a Sample Then Interviewed Part of That