The embedded research staff collected baseline data at an interview.
While many STEM enrichment programs seek to enhance psychological variables such as interest or self-efficacy (e.g., Bakken et al., 2010), very few work directly with motivational researchers to embed research-based design elements that target multiple forms of motivation simultaneously.
The methodological framework for the study was an embedded mixed methods research design.
A qualitative focus group study of exercise instructor feedback about the exercise preferences instrument will be embedded in the research design.
Qualitative telephone interviews will be embedded in the research design to obtain feedback from a sample of participants' about their experiences of sleep monitoring, trial participation and interventions, and to inform the design of a fully powered future RCT.
Qualitative telephone interviews and focus groups will be embedded in the research design to obtain feedback about participants' experiences of the interventions and trial participation, and to inform interpretation of the quantitative data.
Thus, principles of evaluating evidence and understanding research design are embedded into the teaching of the body system blocks during the early phases of the medical program and the medical sciences are also embedded into the teaching of RCA in a two-way holistic approach to learning.
The research design is an embedded mixed methods design QUAN (qual)—because we wanted to incorporate the perspective of the teachers through interviews.
A distinctive feature in the research design was that heating was provided through embedded and localised systems of provision.
This was an exploratory qualitative study with an embedded quantitative strand (Fig. 1) to enhance the overall research design (21).
