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{"title":"The Practical Utility of Mixed Methods: An Empirical Study","authors":"Peter Dahler-Larsen","doi":"10.1177/15586898211057359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898211057359","url":null,"abstract":"While methodologists often assert that a mixed methods approach has greater practical utility than a monomethod approach used in a similar setting, empirical data have been lacking. To examine this assertion, we studied the practical utility of workplace assessments in 1801 public organizations in Denmark, of which 540 chose mixed methods. We measure utility in terms of action taken as well as perceived utility. We contribute to mixed methods research by documenting higher practical utility in mixed methods. Mixed methods share with qualitative methods an association with influence from local stakeholders and employee engagement, but not the weaknesses of qualitative methods (such as lack of documentation and incompatibility with management preferences). Mixed methods may serve diverse stakeholders as a successful hybrid rather than as a unique paradigm.","PeriodicalId":47844,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mixed Methods Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"187 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45180221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Virtual Special Issue on “Mixed Methods Designs, Integration, and Visual Practices in Educational Research”","authors":"Peggy Shannon-Baker","doi":"10.1177/15586898221083959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898221083959","url":null,"abstract":"Educational researchers are increasingly turning to mixed methods research to account for complexity in research contexts and phenomena (Shannon-Baker, 2017). Education was the top field (n = 41, 33%) among empirical papers published in the first 10 years (2007–2016) of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research (Molina-Azorin & Fetters, 2017). Educational research associations have special interest groups for mixed methods research (e.g., American Educational Research Association, European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction). This interest in mixed methods research and the wealth of available articles in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research presents a prime opportunity to collect impactful discussions about applying mixed methods research in educational contexts that can be useful not only for educational research but also for the mixed methods community. The purpose of this virtual special issue is to showcase the breadth of applications of mixed methods research in educational research published in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research as of early January 2022. The 19 articles chosen for this collection were based on education broadly defined and included both empirical and methodological articles. These studies were either based on schooling contexts (e.g., primary schools, colleges, professional development for school officials), studied educational constructs (e.g., learning processes, college recruitment and retention), or included students, teachers, or other educational officials as participants. Special attention was paid to select articles from the breadth of education subfields (e.g., higher education, educational psychology, teacher preparation, educational leadership). Articles included in previous virtual special issues were excluded. The goal of this editorial is to identify common practices educational researchers have used when applying mixed methods research among the articles chosen for this virtual special issue. These articles are organized into three thematic areas based on their common practices. When applying mixed methods research approaches, educational researchers: (1) align their research study design features with specific educational contexts, (2) apply unique forms of integration to merge or transform data, and (3) use visuals throughout the mixed methods research process. This","PeriodicalId":47844,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mixed Methods Research","volume":"16 1","pages":"159 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46814789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Media Review: The Routledge Reviewer’s Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis","authors":"E. Creamer","doi":"10.1177/15586898211070425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898211070425","url":null,"abstract":"I confess at the outset that despite wide reading and writing about mixed methods, I have never been clear on what is meant by mixed data and mixed analysis. I have been inclined to define mixed data as naturally co-occurring qualitative and quantitative data like you might see in a list of passengers who died when the Titanic sank where the gender, age, and location of their accommodations revealed the powerful role of gender and social class in who was lost at sea.","PeriodicalId":47844,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mixed Methods Research","volume":"16 1","pages":"263 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65558871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Media Review: A Practical Guide to Using Qualitative Research with Randomized Controlled Trials","authors":"V. L. Plano Clark","doi":"10.1177/15586898211062394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898211062394","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47844,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mixed Methods Research","volume":"16 1","pages":"260 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45929987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Books on Mixed Methods Research: A Window on the Growth in Number and Diversity","authors":"José F. Molina-Azorín, M. Fetters","doi":"10.1177/15586898211068208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898211068208","url":null,"abstract":"In the editorial published in the October 2021 issue of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research (Fetters & Molina-Azorin, 2021), we noted several indicators of how the mixed methods field is growing and maturing. This previous editorial focused especially on guidance for using mixed methods from diverse international organizations. In the present editorial we focus on another indicator of the maturity of the field: the books published about mixed methods and books that include substantive content on this methodological approach. While most journal articles focus on research, books play a key role in academia by informing and guiding research as well as facilitating diffusion of knowledge and training about foundational concepts to design, implement, interpret, and disseminate mixed methods studies. Books help promote capacity building for researchers at all stages in their careers from junior to senior scholars. Regarding the number of books specifically about mixed methods research, a previous assessment can be traced to Onwuegbuzie (2012). He identified 31 books written about mixed methods that had been published through 2012. He identified two handbooks (Tashakkori & Teddlie, 2003, 2010) and 29 authored or edited books, e.g., Andrew and Halcomb (2009), Creswell and Plano Clark (2011), Greene, (2007), Mertens (2004), Tashakkori and Teddlie (1998), Teddlie and Tashakkori (2009). Moreover, some books included mixed methods as a part of the book along with quantitative and qualitative approaches (Creswell, 2008; Johnson & Christensen, 2010). In this editorial, we emphasize the growth in number of books published that examine mixed methods research and portray the diversity of these books relative to the types of books by the authors’ roles, the academic and research emphases, the multidisciplinary versus disciplinaryspecific focus, the characterization of mixed methods as one of multiple methodologies or as a combined methodology, and the focus on a specific aspect of mixed methods research. Our intent is not to identify exhaustively all the books published that have a focus, or a substantive part of the content focused on mixed methods research. Providing a comprehensive list of all the books featuring mixed methods, especially given the very large number of books that may include content about mixed methods, represents a formidable task that extends beyond the","PeriodicalId":47844,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mixed Methods Research","volume":"16 1","pages":"8 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49527742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In This Issue: Pacific Worldviews to Frame Mixed Methods Research, Advances in Integration, and a Novel Venn Diagram Joint Display","authors":"M. Fetters, José F. Molina-Azorín","doi":"10.1177/15586898211068209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898211068209","url":null,"abstract":"The calendar turns as humankind begins the year 2022. Until the identification of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, it seemed some semblance of order in the world had begun emerging. The COVID-19 virus continues to mutate and wreak terror across the globe. The world continues to be socially distanced and politically divided along many lines. But within this context, mixed methods researchers continue to innovate procedures for conducting mixed methods research in the quest to address social challenges. This issue of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research (JMMR) features multiple breakthroughs for mixed methods research methodology. This issue includes an editorial, three methodological/theoretical articles, four empirical mixed methods methodological articles, and an erratum. In the accompanying editorial, we (Molina-Azorin & Fetters, 2022) provide an estimate of the number of books published that focus on mixed methods research. We note dramatic growth in the sheer number of books in the past three decades as well as the diversity of the books featuring mixed methods research.We identified more than 300 book titles and more than 80% of these were published since 2010. This milestone extends discussion in our last editorial signifying evidence for maturation of the field of mixed methods research in which we examined guidance for using mixed methods research by major public and private organizations globally (Fetters & MolinaAzorin, 2021a). Regarding this issues’ original contributions, two articles, both from New Zealand (Martel et al., 2022; Goodyear-Smith & Ofanoa, 2022) represent groundbreaking contributions to the challenge posed in our previous editorial calling for authors to share worldviews and indigenous philosophies supportive of mixed methods research (Fetters &Molina-Azorin, 2019). Together, these two articles","PeriodicalId":47844,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mixed Methods Research","volume":"16 1","pages":"3 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48420571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using Photographs in Mixed Methods Research: An Illustration Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses from Consumer Research","authors":"Anne-Katrin Kleih, M. Lehberger, K. Sparke","doi":"10.1177/15586898211056748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898211056748","url":null,"abstract":"Photograph analysis poses a novel methodological challenge for mixed methods researchers. In this paper, we argue that photographs are a valid data source that are not outside of the quantitative–qualitative binary and, hence, can be analyzed and used for integration, applying mixed methods principles. We summarize photograph analysis methods from different scientific fields and contribute to the field of mixed methods by proposing a mixed methods framework for analyzing visual data that allows the flexible application and integration of different quantitative and qualitative photograph analysis methods by focusing on data transformation. We use an illustrative example from consumer research.","PeriodicalId":47844,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mixed Methods Research","volume":"16 1","pages":"438 - 457"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46209876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Retroductive Theorizing: A Contribution of Critical Realism to Mixed Methods Research","authors":"Ferdinand C. Mukumbang","doi":"10.1177/15586898211049847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898211049847","url":null,"abstract":"Mixed methods studies in social sciences are predominantly employed to explore broad, complex, and multifaceted issues and to evaluate policies and interventions. The integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in social sciences most often follows the Peircean pragmatic approach—abductive hypothesis formation followed by deductive and inductive testing/confirmation—with limited theorizing properties. This paper contributes to the field of mixed methods research in social sciences by explicating a two-way interaction process between mixed methods data and [social] theory in a pluralistic inferencing approach espoused by critical realism—retroductive theorizing. The paper further illustrates how through retroductive theorizing, critical realism offers a more epistemologically and ontologically grounded alternative for integrating qualitative and quantitative methods compared to pragmatism.","PeriodicalId":47844,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mixed Methods Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"93 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47446374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integration of Narratives Into Mixed Methods Research: An Example From a Study on the Value of Social Support to Older People With Cancer","authors":"Patty Doran, S. Burden, N. Shryane","doi":"10.1177/15586898211056747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898211056747","url":null,"abstract":"While many advances have been made mixing other methodologies with mixed methods research (MMR), there are few examples of narrative MMR or detailed procedures for integrating the narrative approach into mixed methods studies. This article contributes to the MMR field an example of integrating narratives in MMR by applying a methodological approach that is shaped by stories. The example integrated findings from cancer narratives with survey data to explore emotional support and quality of life of older people living with cancer. Integration was achieved by, firstly, following a thread through the research phases, and secondly, by using joint displays to align findings. The narrative MMR methodology presented is a tool for putting stories at the center of the research process.","PeriodicalId":47844,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mixed Methods Research","volume":"16 1","pages":"418 - 437"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49251501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Systematic Reviews of Systematic Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Studies Reviews in Healthcare Research: How to Assess the Methodological Quality of Included Reviews?","authors":"G. Rouleau, Q. Hong, N. Kaur, M. Gagnon, J. Côté, J. Bouix-Picasso, P. Pluye","doi":"10.1177/15586898211054243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898211054243","url":null,"abstract":"Conducting a review of systematic reviews can be challenging, especially when combining systematic quantitative, qualitative and mixed studies reviews. In this methodological discussion paper, we propose (a) a typology for categorizing various types of review of reviews and (b) an exploration of criteria pertaining to three existing critical appraisal tools (ROBIS, AMSTAR 2, and MMSR) to identify those that could be adapted for qualitative and mixed studies reviews. Further work has to be done to develop methodological guidance in conducting, interpreting, and reporting reviews of reviews that combine qualitative and quantitative data.","PeriodicalId":47844,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mixed Methods Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"51 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42133358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}