Mixed methods research becomes more utilized in education research every year. As this pluralist paradigm begins to take hold, it becomes more and more necessary to take a critical eye to studies making use of different mixed methods approaches. An area of education research that has yet struggled to find a foothold with mixed methodology is…

The Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP) examines educational interventions and determines their effectiveness. This study's purpose was to assess this review process and identify common characteristics of submittals and ways in which approvals and rejections differed. A locally-developed instrument which collected data on the intervention's…

This report describes a validation effort made to determine the effectiveness of a package of eight instructional modules which deal with equal opportunity and sex discrimination in physical education. A sample of preservice and inservice physical education teachers used the modules. The modules were validated through administration of pre and…