Handbook of Mixed Methods Research in Education

Edited by Keith Morrison, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Saint Joseph, Macau and Beng Huat See, Professor of Education Research, School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK

• Contents1 Introduction to the field of mixed methods research in education 1Keith Morrison and Beng Huat SeePART I Foundations and approaches in mixed methods research in educationIntroduction to Part I 23Keith Morrison and Beng Huat See2 The many roles of pragmatism in mixed methods research 24Adam Coates3 Critical realism as a stance for mixed methods research in education 39Joseph Maxwell4 Activating a transformative paradigm for mixed methods research ineducation 58Norma Romm and Donna M. Mertens5 A feminist approach to mixed methods research in education 79Alison Milner6 Use of research paradigms and culturally responsive approaches: exploringmixed methods in selected educational studies 95Peggy Shannon-Baker and Loraine D. Cook7 A performative approach to mixed methods research 111Judith Schoonenboom and Cornelia Schadler8 Mixing methods is still wrong 130Stephen GorardPART II Learning from real-life examples of mixed methods research in educationIntroduction to Part II 146Keith Morrison and Beng Huat See9 Research as principled argument: a mixed methods case study of formativeassessment 148Dylan Wiliam10 The what, why, and how of mixing in mixed methods 166Thomas Perry, Wendy Ramku and Rebecca Morris11 Ethnography has mixed methods at its centre 183Geoffrey Walford12 Mixed methods, deeper meanings: researching inclusion in a smallterritory 195Kiiko Ikegami and Elisa Monteiro13 Exploring the relationship between science practical work pedagogy andassessment outcomes at age 14–16: a case study of mixed methods research 214Alistair Moore, Judith Bennett, Peter Fairhurst and Christine Harrison14 How to prepare well for external science examinations: a sequential mixedmethods study 232Fatema Sultana, Olena Kaminska, Richard Watkins and Carl Hughes15 The Student Grouping Study: complex interventions require integratedmixed methods 251Becky Taylor, Jeremy Hodgen, Antonina Tereshchenko, MariaCockerill, Laurie Jacques and Rosa Kwok16 Integrating impact evaluations and implementation and process evaluationsin mixed methods research in education 270Carole Torgerson and Louise Tracey17 Using logic models in mixed methods research: the example of theIntegrating English randomised controlled trial 289Mike Coldwell, Martin Culliney and Nick Moore18 Utilising mixed methods in randomised controlled trials: examples fromNorwegian upper secondary schools 309Sigrun K. Ertesvåg and Pamela Sammons19 Exploring teachers’ work preferences in Sweden: integrating statisticaldata and interviews within a Geometric Data Analysis framework 326Emil Bertilsson20 Building networks and impacting child development: mixed methods inresearching the case of a parenting program in Rio de Janeiro 346Tiago Bartholo, Mariane Koslinski and William Corrêa de Melo21 Mixed methods research in mathematics testing 364Tomáš Želinský, Ivana Pichaničová and Lucia Ficová22 A multiple methods evaluation of a school effectiveness measure(Progress 8) 388Mark Ledger23 AI and cloud data collection as tools for mixed methods research: a casestudy on gender in young children’s storybooks 404Tamzin Kitby, Chris McWilliams, Jess Pilgrim-Brown, RobertaGuerrina and Fiona JordanPART III Retrospect and prospectIntroduction to Part III 422Keith Morrison and Beng Huat See24 Retrospect and prospect 423Beng Huat See, Stephen Gorard and Keith Morrison

‘This masterfully crafted handbook represents a seminal contribution to mixed methods research in education—bridging paradigmatic boundaries, advancing meta-inferences, and modeling methodological integrity. Morrison and See empower researchers to harness the full potential of mixed methods research to produce nuanced, contextually rich, and socially meaningful understandings of complex educational phenomena.’