1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook for Advancing Integration in Mixed Methods Research
This groundbreaking edited book, The Routledge Handbook for Advancing Integration in Mixed Methods Research, presents an array of different integration ideas, with contributions from scholars across the globe.
This handbook represents the first major volume that comprehensively discusses this topic of integration. Perhaps the most fundamental and longstanding question in mixed methods research is: How does one best integrate disparate forms of information to produce the best form of inquiry? Each of the 34 seminal chapters in this handbook accelerates the discussion of integration across a broad range of disciplines, including education, arts-based analyses, and work in the Global South, as well as special topics such as psychometrics and media research. Many of the chapters present new topics that have never been written about before, and all chapters offer cutting-edge approaches to integration. They also offer different perspectives of integration – leading the introductory chapter to offer a new and comprehensive definition for integration, as follows: "referring to the optimal mixing, combining, blending, amalgamating, incorporating, joining, linking, merging, consolidating, or unifying of research approaches, methodologies, philosophies, methods, techniques, concepts, language, modes, disciplines, fields, and/or teams within a single study." The concluding chapter offers a meta-framework that accounts for this definition and is designed to help scholars think more about integration in a way that represents a continuous, dynamic, iterative, interactive, synergistic, and holistic meaning-making process.
This handbook will be an essential reference work for all scholars and practitioners using or seeking to use mixed methods in their research.
Introduction
1. The Routledge Handbook for Advancing Integration in Mixed Methods Research: An Introduction
John H. Hitchcock and Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
Part I. Conceptual and Philosophical Issues in Integration
2. Mapping the Landscape of Integration in Mixed Research
Kathleen M. T. Collins
3. Adding to the Understanding of Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Research
Elizabeth G. Creamer
4. Developing the Meta-Inference in Mixed Methods Research through Successive Integration of Claims
Judith Schoonenboom
5. Mixed Methods Integration for Transformative Purposes
Donna M. Mertens
6. Integration in Mixed Methods Research: An Alternative Perspective
Joseph A. Maxwell
Part II. Integrated Designs
7. Paradigms in Mixed Methods Research
David L. Morgan
8. Designing Integrated Ethnographic Approaches
Bonnie Kaul Nastasi
9. Phenomenography as a Basis for Fully Integrated Mixed Methodologies
David F. Feldon and Colby Tofel-Grehl
10. A Tale of Inherent Integration: A Model Supporting a Shared Purpose to Investigate Videogame Programming in Libraries
Sandra Schamroth Abrams and Richard Van Eck
11. Designing Integrated Mixed Methods Action Research Studies
Nataliya V. Ivankova and Sophia L. Johnson
12. Adaptive Practices for a Complexity-Sensitive Approach to Mixed Integration
Cheryl Poth
13. The Emergent Multiphase Design: Demonstrating a Fully Integrated Approach in the Context of Language Research in Education
Lisbeth M. Brevik
14. Designing for Integration in Mixed Methods Case Studies
Vicki L. Plano Clark, Janet B. Walton, and Lori A. Foote
Part III. Integrated Analyses
15. Bayesian Integration Applications in Physical Activity and Sport Research: Barriers and Solutions
M. Teresa Anguera, Marta Castañer, Mariona Portell, Pedro Sánchez-Algarra, and Oleguer Camerino
16. Use of Bayesian Estimation in the Context of Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Models
Prathiba Natesan Batley
17. Rethinking Integration in the Mixed IRT Framework: Advancing Research in Athletic Training
Shannon David
18. Mixed Methods Integration and the Ontological Imperative in Understanding Social Media Analytics
Hannah R. Gerber and Tom Liam Lynch
19. Learning Analytics as an Integrated Approach in Mixed Methods Research
Donggil Song, Yoonhee Shin, and Hyeonmi Hong
20. Data Visualization in the Context of Integrated Analyses
Timothy C. Guetterman and Michael D. Fetters
21. Conceptualizing Q Methodology as an Integrated Analysis
Susan Ramlo
Part IV. Arts-Based Integration Approaches
22. Arts-Based Integrated Research: Exemplars from the Literature
Mandy M. Archibald
23. Toward Artful Integration in Mixed Methods Research
Margarete Sandelowski
24. Integrating Arts-Based Approaches in Mixed Methods Research with Diverse Stakeholders
Peggy Shannon-Baker and Claudia Martinez
Part V. Integrated Approaches to Education and Special Education Research
25. Applying Mixed Methods and Integration Approaches to Early Childhood Intervention Research
Maureen A. Conroy, Bryce D. McLeod, and Kevin S. Sutherland
26. Using an Integrated Approach When Conducting Juvenile Justice Special Education Mixed Research
Robbie J. Marsh, David E. Houchins, Casey S. Christenson
27. Using Integration Approaches to Study School and Community Partnerships Across Transition Services
Sara L. McDaniel and Valerie L. Mazzotti
Part VI. Integration Approaches in Developing Nations
28. Conceptualizing Integrated Education Research Teams in Kosovo
Arlinda Beka and John H. Hitchcock
29. Understanding Mixed Methods Integration in Chinese Education through Caterpillar Fungi as a Metaphor
Hongjing Liao
30. The Utilization of Integration in Mixed Methods Research in the Caribbean
Loraine D. Cook and Vimala Judy Kamalodeen
31. Understanding Integration via a Kaleidoscope Metaphor: The Case of SCRATCHMAPS
Juliet Perumal, Naiema Taliep, Olutola Olujuwon, and Zvisinei Moyo
Part VII. Software Applications for Integrated Analyses
32. Using IBM SPSS Statistics for Integration in Mixed Methods Research
Nancy L. Leech
33. Using MAXQDA for Integration in Mixed Methods Research
Udo Kuckartz and Stefan Rädiker
Conclusion
34. Towards a Comprehensive Meta-Framework for Full Integration in Mixed Methods Research
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie and John H. Hitchcock
Biography
John H. Hitchcock is Principal Research Associate at Westat, where he conducts grant-funded and contract-based research for government entities and philanthropies. He writes about mixed methods research and other aspects of design methodology. To date, Hitchcock has coauthored more than 70 works and delivered more than 100 conference presentations.
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie holds the following positions: Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, England; Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Management/Department of Educational Psychology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa; Honorary Professor, University of South Africa; Visiting Senior Scholar, St. John’s University, New York; and Honorary Recognized Supervisor (Online), School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool. He writes extensively on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodological topics. With an h-index of 104, he has had published more than 550 works, including more than 400 journal articles, 60 book chapters, and six books. He has delivered more than 1,000 presentations, 250 methodological workshops, and 60 keynote addresses worldwide.
