hi....
ur concern is highly appreciatd.
I have used a mixed (triangulated) data collection to accomplish the objectives of my study:
1- pre-test & post-test questionnaire....('the quantitative method' is used to test correlations between amount of participation and students' attitudes in the two invironmets )
2- observations....(the qualitative one)
3- oral recordings.....transcribed
4- electronic discussions.......printed
Both scripts of oral and written (quantitative data) were categorized according to a scheme, and then counted and analyzed using statistical procedure e.g ANOVA, chi-squre,
gini coefficients,..etc ??
Discriptive statistics is used to show frequencies and percetages of discourse features used by the two groups under investigation.
my question is:
Is there a difference between values if I use Chi-square or ANOVA for example to determine significant differences between the two groups? if yes, which of these is more appropriate?