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Education Library: Research Methods: Mixed Methods

This Guide is intended as a starting point for your research and lists a selection of material. You will need to look beyond the resources listed here to identify further reading.  Additional material (including more ebooks) can be found in the Education Ebooks Collection, or Sage Research Methods and in scholarly ejournal articles sourced using bibliographic databases.

Additional Reading

See the Mixed Methods Section of the Education Ebooks Collection for additional reading

                Education Ebooks Collection

Useful Sections in the Faculty Library

The following sections of the Library will contain material on this subject:

301/01 – Social science research methodology                                                                               

370/78 – Educational research  

Journal Articles

Blatchford, P. (2005) A multi-method approach to the study of school class size differences. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8(3), 195-205.

Burke-Johnson, R., & Onwuegbuzie, A. J. (2004). Mixed methods research: a research paradigm whose time has come. Educational Researcher, 33(7), 14-26.

Ercikan, K. and Roth, W.-M. (2006) What good is polarizing research into qualitative and quantitative? Educational Researcher, 35(5), 14-23.

Gorard, S. (2002). Can we overcome the methodological schism? Four models for combining qualitative and quantitative evidence. Research Papers in Education, 17(4), 345-361.

Jessop, T. and Penny, A. (1999) A story behind a story: developing strategies for making sense of teacher narratives. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2(3), 213-230.

Johnson, R.B. and Onwuegbuzie, A. (2004) Mixed methods research: a research paradigm whose time has come? Educational Researcher, 33(7), 14-26.

Johnson, R. B., Onwuegbuzie, A. J., & Turner, L. A. (2007). Toward a Definition of Mixed Methods Research. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1(2), 112-133.

Kadushin, C., Hecht, S., Sasson, T., & Saxe, L. (2008). Triangulation and Mixed Methods Designs: Practicing What We Preach in the Evaluation of an Israel Experience Educational Program. Field Methods, 20(1), 46-65.

Lund, T. (2012). Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches: Some arguments for mixed methods research. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 56(2), 155-165.

Onwuegbuzie, A. (2007) A typology of mixed methods sampling designs in social science research. The Qualitative Report, 12(2), 281-316.

Symonds, J. E., & Gorard, S. (2010). Death of mixed methods? Or the rebirth of research as a craft. Evaluation & Research in Education, 23(2), 121 - 136.

Terrell, S. R. (2012). Mixed-methods research methodologies. Qualitative Report, 17(1), 254-280.

Faculty Video Interviews

Listen to Dominic Wyse discuss mixed methods research

Ebooks

Print Books

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library@educ.cam.ac.uk

Sage Research Methods

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Journal in the Field

Remember that you can search for scholarly journal articles by subject using a specialist bibliographic database. Further support with this can be found on the Literature Searching Guide.

 

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