A Dialectic Data Integration Approach for Mixed Methods Survey Validation

Fila, Nicholas D.; Hess, Justin L.; Purzer, Şenay

doi:10.18260/p.23376

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“…Here we report the factor loadings that we derived from the confirmatory factor analyses. Items with higher factor loadings are likely more salient to the factor within our participant context when compared with items with lower factor loadings (Fila et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 92%

“…A mixed methods approach aims to integrate different processes of knowledge generation, or what Greene (2007) describes as "meaningful engagement with difference" (p. 14). To facilitate such engagement, in alignment with Fila et al (2015), we employed Messick's (1995) six aspects of construct validity to bolster…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This study integrates quantitative and qualitative methods to contribute multiple forms of evidence for validity (Fila et al, 2015) within the context of first-year engineering students. Although these research questions focus on engineering, this study's findings can inform research and practice outside of engineering, as described in the implications section.…”

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Validating the Civic-Minded Graduate Scale in Engineering Education Using Mixed Methods

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Hess

2022

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

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Civic-mindedness is a central aim of higher education, but strategies for assessing civic-mindedness in engineering education are limited. Thus, engineering educators must build on strategies employed across higher education while ensuring these strategies are transferable to the engineering context. This study continues ongoing validation work of the Civic-Minded Graduate Scale in engineering by using mixed methods to pursue multiple forms of validity evidence. We collected, analyzed, and triangulated findings from first-year engineering students using 419 survey responses and 11 semi-structured interviews. We integrated quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate how the five constructs of the Civic-Minded Graduate Scale represent engineering students’ civic-mindedness and manifest in engineering students’ perceptions of the engineering profession. We align our data with existing engineering education research, particularly in the domains of ethics, humanitarian engineering, and professional skills development. We close with implications for teaching and assessing civic-mindedness within and outside of engineering education.

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Validating the Civic-Minded Graduate Scale in Engineering Education Using Mixed Methods

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2022

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

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“…An open-minded researcher is appropriate for utilizing the beauties of MMR. The dialectical mixed methods researcher embraces each of the incompatible paradigms, and carefully navigates between them when working in the QUAN versus QUAL domains (Fila, Hess & Purzer, 2015). It is possible to integrate quantitative and qualitative methods, combining these methods introduces both testability and context into the research.…”

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Design and Data Integration in Mixed Methods Research: Challenges and Ways Forward

Rai

2018

Res. Nep. Jnl. Dev. Stud.

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Mixed Methods Research (MMR) has been taken as a latest and more practical approach in the field of social science. It has the opportunity of mixing the strengths of both Quantitative (QUAN) and Qualitative (QUAL) methods but has also the challenges of mixing these strengths into the process. The practitioners have been facing the challenge of integrating the design, data sampling, collection, analysis and collection of findings. However, the scholars have proposed multiple ways of conducting the research and coming out from the potential challenges. It explores the conceptual frame and methodological procedures for conducting MMR in the research studies so that the challenges would be illuminated as much as possible. For using any of those typologies, some properties like open-mindedness, aware of methodological corruption and accountable to the stakeholders are essential for a researcher.

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A Dialectic Data Integration Approach for Mixed Methods Survey Validation

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Validating the Civic-Minded Graduate Scale in Engineering Education Using Mixed Methods

Validating the Civic-Minded Graduate Scale in Engineering Education Using Mixed Methods

Design and Data Integration in Mixed Methods Research: Challenges and Ways Forward

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