Exemplars of Integration in Engineering Education’s Use of Mixed Methods Research

Abstract

Her research and scholarship are focused on exploring the implementation of mixed methods, qualitative, and artsinformed research designs in studies examining issues of education research. Her work in these areas includes but is not limited to her dissertation study examining youth acculturation patterns through an arts-informed approach to mixed methods, exploring professional identity development in medical and engineering students, and formative joint display analysis on dissonance in a cultural competency study of first-year engineering students.

Information asymmetries in web‐based information for engineering transfer students

“…We used multiple mixed-methods analysis strategies, which enabled us to construct deeper meta-inferences by allowing mixing throughout the entire design (Reeping et al, 2019). These strategies are highlighted in the procedural diagram's central column to illustrate our design's mixed priority (Reeping & Edwards, 2020).…”

Work in Progress: A Systematic Literature Review of Person-Centered Approaches and Data-Driven Methods in Engineering Education Research

“…The next steps for this study involve aggregating our findings to the method level with respect to the principles of QuantCrit. Moreover, we will extract the sequence of methods as a network and use ego-network analysis to find common pairings of methods and how person-centered approaches are situated in the research designs (Reeping, 2022).…”

Work in Progress: Using Ego Network Analysis to Analyze How Engineering Education Researchers Construct Mixed Methods Designs

“…This work-in-progress paper aims to demonstrate a technique for understanding how researchers use integration strategies to construct mixed methods designs, focusing specifically on engineering education publications in this instance. Previous reviews by Crede and Borrego [1], Kajfez and Creamer [2], and Reeping and Edwards [14] evidence how engineering education researchers have embraced elements of what embodies mixed methods research. However, little work has examined how engineering education researchers integrate in their designs.…”

“…However, little work has examined how engineering education researchers integrate in their designs. We can often ascertain the how behind authors' integration processes through procedural diagrams, but these are infrequently used in prominent publication venues like the Journal of Engineering Education and the European Journal of Engineering Education [14]. Despite such omissions, the analytical strategy presented in this work-in-progress paper advances how a researcher in any discipline, whether seeking to examine the state of a field, set of journals or publication venues, or a certain body of research within a field, can construct a dataset of procedural diagrams to examine the corpus' methodological landscape.…”

“…Integration occurs along the dimensions of the so-called integration trilogy, which involves the methodological dimension (i.e., the system of methods at the methodological level), the method dimension (e.g., data collection and analytical procedures), and the philosophical dimension (e.g., theoretical underpinnings, ontology, epistemology) [13]. A recent review [14] highlighted purposefully selected exemplars of integration addressing the integration challenge [6] in engineering education publication venues; however, the review was not systematic, leaving a broader synthesis of contemporary approaches to integration in engineering education unexplored.…”