Mixed Methods Design & Proc.

Catalog description

This course provides students an advanced understanding of mixed methods research applied to educational problems of practice with an emphasis on social justice and equity. Course topics focus on developing research questions suited to in-depth mixed methods inquiry of educational issues, sampling adequately from vulnerable or hard-to-reach populations, employing rigorous quantitative and qualitative procedures tailored to community collaboration, integrating textual and numeric data to provide a more complete understanding of marginality and exclusion, addressing validity threats unique to educational mixed methods, and reporting compelling mixed methods findings to inform policy and practice.