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In the spring of 2002 Evaluation Exchange, Coffman summarized a conversation that she had with Michael Quinn Patton where he stated that one major recent breakthrough in evaluation over the past 15–20 years was the end to the qualitative–quantitative debate. Since 2000, there has been considerably more emphasis on the use of mixed methods or integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches in a single evaluation study or series of studies to understand an evaluation problem. While qualitative and quantitative approaches, in isolation, each have strengths and weaknesses, evaluators have argued that a stronger, more comprehensive account of what is happening within a program can be ascertained when combining the methods in comparison to the conventional evaluation approach of relying only on one method (e.g., Greene, Benjamin, & Goodyear, 2001; Mertens & Hesse-Biber, 2013). Chapter 11 covers mixed methods in detail.