The Mixed Methods Reader

In light of the dispersed nature of the literature on mixed methods research, Clark and Creswell (both U. of Nebraska-Lincoln) offer graduate students, researchers, and methodologists an organized collection of key methodological mixed methods discussions and exemplar mixed methods research studies in one easy-to-access resource. The reader draws from the literature appearing across diverse research disciplines over the past 30 years; the 23 selections are reproduced as they originally appeared in print. The methodological selections on the mixed method approach examine its foundations; design types; implementation issues such as sampling, data analysis, and validity; rhetorical devices for reporting mixed methods studies; and critiques about the current thinking in the field. The exemplar research studies serve as applications of the methodological issues and provide scholars models for conducting and reporting mixed media research. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)