What approach fits your research problem?

Qualitative case study

Quantitative study enhanced by qualitative data

Qualitative study enhanced by quantitative data

Do you have the skills/resources to carry out the methods?

The skills/resources needed to employ qualitative and quantitative methods appropriately tend to be very different. Pooling of skills and resources is a good reason for community and collaboration in a campus SOTL

Will your audience find these approaches acceptable?
Editors or audiences within a discipline may be disinclined to accept work that does not include methods familiar to that discipline.

A good primer: User Friendly Handbook for Mixed-Method Evaluations (NSF)

Why such a publication from the premier organization representing the sciences? “ Because of the recognition that by focusing primarily on quantitative techniques, evaluators may miss important parts of a story.” Similarly by focusing exclusively on qualitative methods, researchers may miss opportunities to back their findings with the kind of objective evidence that makes the findings credible to a broader audience.

Guiding questions provided by Samuel Guskin, Professor Emeritus,
School of Education, Indiana University