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Mixed Methods Research
Mixed methods research is based on systematically combining qualitative and quantitative research methods. Mixed methods have a long history of use in sociology and, perhaps to a lesser degree, in anthropology and are thus relevant to the study of social and cultural foundations of education. This entry describes several principles of mixed methods research; contrasts qualitative and quantitative data; notes several paradigms attributed to mixed methods research; sketches the process of mixed methods research design; details one kind of design; and provides a simple, yet illustrative, example.
Several Principles of Mixed Methods Research
The potential complexity of mixed methods research makes it necessary here to merely present several principles of mixed methods research. A first principle is to mix quantitative and qualitative methods in a way ...
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- Religious Fundamentalism and Public Education
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- Child Abuse: Issues for Teachers
- Church and State
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- Ethics and Education
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- Historically Black Catholic Schools
- Human Rights Education
- Ideology and Schooling
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Students and Teachers: Rights of Parent Rights
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- Religious Fundamentalism and Public Education
- Rights of Students
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- Bullying
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- Computing, Ethical Issues
- Corporal Punishment
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- Ethics and Education
- Ethics Codes for Teachers
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- Plagiarism
- Principalship, History of
- Rights of Students
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- School Choice
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- Sex Education
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- Sports Mascots
- Superintendency
- Surveillance in Schools
- Vending Machines in Schools
- Video Games and Learning
- Sexuality and Gender
- Abstinence-Only Sexual Education
- Athletics, Policy Issues
- Boy Scouts of America
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- Dress Codes
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- “Scientific” Racism
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- Project Method
- Pygmalion Effect
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- Semiotics
- Small Schools Movement
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- Social Construction of Disability
- Vulnerability
- Waldorf Education
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