Concurrent triangulation strategy

Greenbowe and Meltzer II) used a concurrent triangulation strategy to uncover the conceptual difficulties faced by college chemistry students studying... 

Figure 4. The concurrent triangulation strategy (Creswell, J. W. Research Design, Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches 2nd ed. p. 214, copyright 2003 by Sage Publications, Inc. Reprinted by Permission of Sage Publications, Inc.).

Similar to the concurrent triangulation approach, the concurrent nested strategy uses one data collection analysis phase. However, as indicated in Figure 5, one approach has priority over the other and the more dominant methodology guides the study. The less dominant method may address a different research question or collect data at different levels— teaching assistants rather than faculty or students, or administrators rather than faculty members. 

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