Hierarchical Linear Modeling with Qualitative Data that Have Been Quantitized

Associations between teacher stress and school leadership: A mixed methods study with implications for school psychologists.

“…The qualitative results from Phase 3 helped the researchers conceptualize the research questions and specify the multilevel models in a much richer way than could have been developed within a quantitative approach alone. Specifically, the quantitized (Sandelowski et al, 2009) leadership quality ratings (i.e., lower quality, average quality, and higher quality) were used as predictor variables in the multilevel models in Phase 4 (as demonstrated by Cox et al, 2021; J. Hitchcock et al, 2021).…”