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Mukumbang, Ferdinand C. – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2023
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…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Social Science Research, Inferences, Epistemology
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Frericks, Patricia – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
Social research is rich in methods for analysing societal differences. Yet, although qualitative characteristics are a key component to understanding such differences, the analysis of qualitative data remains a major methodological challenge in most social research, particularly when aiming to compare more than a few cases. The article proposes an…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Social Differences
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Taylor, Joseph A.; Pigott, Terri; Williams, Ryan – Educational Researcher, 2022
Toward the goal of more rapid knowledge accumulation via better meta-analyses, this article explores statistical approaches intended to increase the precision and comparability of effect sizes from education research. The featured estimate of the proposed approach is a standardized mean difference effect size whose numerator is a mean difference…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Effect Size, Meta Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Ian Jones; Ben Davies – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2024
Educational researchers often need to construct precise and reliable measurement scales of complex and varied representations such as participants' written work, videoed lesson segments and policy documents. Developing such scales using can be resource-intensive and time-consuming, and the outcomes are not always reliable. Here we present…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Comparative Analysis, Educational Researchers, Measurement
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Wendt, Maria – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2020
One overarching question in scholarly methodological discussions on qualitative comparative approaches concerns how it is possible to compare and generalise deep insider knowledge across (nationally) specific contexts. The aim of this article is to propose a research strategy that both facilitates the comparison and theorisation of such knowledge…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Weidlich, Joshua; Gaševic, Dragan; Drachsler, Hendrik – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2022
As a research field geared toward understanding and improving learning, Learning Analytics (LA) must be able to provide empirical support for causal claims. However, as a highly applied field, tightly controlled randomized experiments are not always feasible nor desirable. Instead, researchers often rely on observational data, based on which they…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Inferences, Learning Analytics, Comparative Analysis
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Adam B. Wilson; Boon Huat Bay; Jessica N. Byram; Melissa A. Carroll; Gabrielle M. Finn; Niels Hammer; Sabine Hildebrandt; Claudia Krebs; Jonathan J. Wisco; Jason M. Organ – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses aggregate research findings across studies and populations, making them a valuable form of research evidence. Over the past decade, studies in medical education using these methods have increased by 630%. However, many manuscripts are not publication-ready due to inadequate planning and insufficient analyses.…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Guidelines, Meta Analysis, Evidence
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Ioana-Elena Oana; Carsten Q. Schneider – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
The robustness of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) results features high on the agenda of methodologists and practitioners. This article aims at advancing this debate on several fronts. First, in line with the extant literature, we take a comprehensive view on robustness arguing that decisions on calibration, consistency, and frequency…
Descriptors: Robustness (Statistics), Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
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Taber, Keith S. – Studies in Science Education, 2019
Experimental studies are often employed to test the effectiveness of teaching innovations such as new pedagogy, curriculum, or learning resources. This article offers guidance on good practice in developing research designs, and in drawing conclusions from published reports. Random control trials potentially support the use of statistical…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Educational Research, Research Design, Research Methodology
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Efthimiou, Orestis; White, Ian R. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
Standard models for network meta-analysis simultaneously estimate multiple relative treatment effects. In practice, after estimation, these multiple estimates usually pass through a formal or informal selection procedure, eg, when researchers draw conclusions about the effects of the best performing treatment in the network. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Models, Meta Analysis, Network Analysis, Simulation
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Gerrits, Lasse; Pagliarin, Sofia – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is said to be a method that can be used to uncover social complexity. However, this complexity is often 'missing in action' in actual empirical applications of the method. We aim to rearticulate the properties of social and causal complexity in their relationship to QCA. We first discuss the reasons why this…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Realism
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Parkkinen, Veli-Pekka; Baumgartner, Michael – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
In recent years, proponents of configurational comparative methods (CCMs) have advanced various dimensions of robustness as instrumental to model selection. But these robustness considerations have not led to computable robustness measures, and they have typically been applied to the analysis of real-life data with unknown underlying causal…
Descriptors: Robustness (Statistics), Comparative Analysis, Causal Models, Models
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Jopke, Nikolaus; Gerrits, Lasse – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2019
There is a need to improve the ways in which Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) handles qualitative data. To this end, we propose to include ideas and routines from Grounded Theory (GT) in QCA. We will first argue that there is a natural fit between the two on the ontological level. On the methodological level, we will demonstrate in what ways…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Grounded Theory, Sampling
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Veri, Francesco – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
This article aims to clarify the fundamental aspects of aggregating fuzzy scores of conditions with multiple attributes in fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Fuzzy multiple attribute conditions (FMACs) are conditions that are built using different types of concepts. FMACs are flexible conditions that express the ontological nature…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Computation, Scores
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Cabrera, Laura Y.; Reiner, Peter B. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2018
Between-subject design surveys are a powerful means of gauging public opinion, but critics rightly charge that closed-ended questions only provide slices of insight into issues that are considerably more complex. Qualitative research enables richer accounts but inevitably includes coder bias and subjective interpretations. To mitigate these…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Qualitative Research
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