Handbook of mixed methods in social & behavioral research / editors, Abbas Tashakkori, Charles Teddlie.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Major issues and controversies in the use of mixed methods in the social and behavioral sciences / Charles Teddlie and Abbas Tashakkori -- Pragmatic threads in mixed methods research in the social sciences : the search for multiple modes of inquiry and the end of the philosopy of formalism / Spencer J. Maxcy -- Making paradigmatic sense of mixed methods practice / Jennifer C. Greene and Valerie J. Caracelli -- Cultural distance, levels of abstraction, and the advantages of mixed methods / Fathali M. Moghaddam, Benjamin R. Walker, and Rom Harré -- Mixed methods and the politics of human research : the transformative-empancipatory perspective / Donna M. Mertens -- Typology of research purposes and its relationship to mixed methods / Isadore Newman ... [and others] -- Principles of mixed methods and multimethod research design / Janice M. Morse -- Advanced mixed methods research designs / John W. Creswell ... [and others] -- Mixed methods design : an alternative approach / Joseph A. Maxwell and Diane M. Loomis -- Mixed methods sampling strategies in social science research / Elizabeth A. Kemper, Sam Stringfield, and Charles Teddlie -- Data collection strategies in mixed methods research / Burke Johnson and Lisa A. Turner -- Tables or tableaux? : the challenges of writing and reading mixed methods studies / Margarete Sandelowski -- Framework for analyzing data in mixed methods research / Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie and Charles Teddlie -- Computerized data analysis for mixed methods research / Pat Bazeley -- Impact of mixed methods and design on inference quality / Steven Miller -- Making inferences in mixed methods : the rules of integration / Christian Erzberger and Udo Kelle -- Mixed methods in evaluation contexts : a pragmatic framework / Sharon F. Rallis and Gretchen B. Rossman -- Research methods in management and organizational research : toward integration of qualitative and quantitative techniques / Steven C. Currall and Annette J. Towler -- Status of mixed methods in the health sciences / Melinda S. Forthofer -- Status of mixed methods research in nursing / Sheila Twinn -- Mixed methods in psychological research / Cindy Waszak and Marylyn C. Sines -- Multimethod research in sociology / Albert Hunter and John Brewer -- Pragmatic and dialectical lenses : two views of mixed methods use in education / Tonette S. Rocco ... [and others] -- Teaching mixed methods research : practices, dilemmas, and challenges / John W. Creswell ... [and others] -- Collaborative mixed methods research / Lyn M. Shulha and Robert J. Wilson -- Past and future of mixed methods research : from data triangulation to mixed model designs / Abbas Tashakkori and Charles Teddlie.

The Handbook provides both philosophical and practical foundations for using mixed methods in social science inquiry. Theory about mixing methods is nicely balanced and illustrated with concrete examples. All aspects of inquiry are covered from conceptualizing research to selecting methods, analyzing and interpreting data, and reporting findings. The Handbook offers the most comprehensive review of mixed methods available anywhere. It will be a definitive reference for a long time to come. The contributors to this handbook have a broad range of expertise in the area of mixed methods research. They offer broad and diverse points of view on the topic of multi-methods research and offer engaging and controversial points of view on a broad range of issues. The fact that there is not broad agreement on this topic makes for a lively engagement with the range of articles. There is a 'third methodological movement' underway and this handbook is at the cutting edge of capturing this third wave methodology.