Objectives: After completing t his class, you will be able to:

• Assess the strengths, weaknesses, and barriers to using a mixed methods approach to research
• Use a variety of data collection technques such as Q-sorting, free listing, and life history narratives, to improve the quality and range of data you can collect
• Employ a variety of data collection techniques to enhance the reliability and construct validity of your research
• Identify and use contrasting techniques of data collection to improve your ability to assess convergent and divergent validity (triangulation, or multiple measurement of key constructs)

Assigned Readings

Review Ch. 25 in Bryman, 3rd Ed.

Fielding, N. (2010) Mixed methods research in the real world. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 13(2), 127-138.

Pick ONE to read in class on March 19 -- Two people canNOT read the same article. Articles in RED have already been claimed.

Danielson, S. (2009). Q method and surveys: Three ways to combine Q and R. Field Methods 21(3), 219-237.

Ellingsen, I.T., Storksen, I. & Stephens, P. (2010) Q methodology in social work research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 13(5), 395-409.

Faulkner, G.E.J., Kwan, M.Y.W., MacNeill, M. & Brownrigg, M. (2011) The Long Live Kids campaign: Awareness of campaign messages. Journal of Health Communication 16(5), 519-532.

Friedman, S.R., Mateu-Gelabert, P., Sandoval, M., Hagan, H. & des Jarlais, D.C. (2008) Positive deviance control-case life history: A method to develop grounded hypotheses about successful long-term avoidance of infection. BMC Public Health 8, 94-103.

Griffith, S.D., Shiffman, S. & Heitjan, D.F. (2009) A method comparison of timeline followback and ecological momentary assessment of daily cigarette consumption. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 11(1), 1368-1373.

Halloway, M.R. & Gambatese, J.A. (2010). Qualitative research: Application of the Delphi method to CEM research. Journal of Construction Engineering & Management 136(1), 99-107.

Kan, M.Y. & Pudney, S. (2008). Measurement error in stylized and diary data on time use. Sociological Methodology 38(1), 101-132.

Keightley, E. (2010) Remembering research: Memory and methodology in the social sciences. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 13(1), 55-70.

Labaree, R.V. (2006) Encounters with the library: Understanding experience using the life history method. Library Trends 55(1), 121-139.

Mireaux, M., Cox, D.N., Cotton, A. & Evans, G. (2007). An adaptation of repertory grid methodology to evaluate Australian consumers' perceptions of food products produced by novel technologies. Food Quality & Preference 18(6), 834-848.

Morizet, D., Depezay, L., Masse, P., Combris, P. & Giboreau, A. (2011) Perceptual and lexical knowledge of vegetables in preadolescent children. Appetite 57(1), 142-147.

Owens, J. (2012) Liberating voices through narrative methods: The case for an interpretive research approach. Disability & Society 22(3) 299-313.

Posada, G. (2006) Assessing attachment security at age three: Q-sort home observations and the MacArthur strange situation adaptation. Social Development 15(4), 644-658.

Robertson, B.M., Piasecki, T.M., Slutske, W.S., Wood, P.K. et al. (2012) Validity of the hangover symptoms scale: Evidence from an electronic diary study. Alcohlism: Clinical & Experimental Research 36(1), 171-177.

Rocha, J. (2005) Measuring traditional agro-ecological knowledge: An example from peasants in the Peruvian Andes. Field Methods 17(4), 356-372.

Ronka, A., Malinen, K., Kinnunen, U., Tolvanen, A. & Lamsa, T. (2010) Capturing daily family dynamics via text messages: Development of the mobile diary. Community, Work & Family 13(1), 5-21.

Ryan, G.W., Nolan, J.M., & Yoder, P.S. (2000). Successive free listing: Using multiple free lists to generate explanatory models. Field Methods 12(2), 83-108.

Ryan, S.M., Jorm, A.F. Kelly, C.M., Hart, L.M. et al (2011) Parenting strategies for reducing adolescent alcohol use: A Delphi consensus study. BMC Public Health 11(1), 1-8.

Stylianou, S. (2008) Interview control questions. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 11(3), 239-256. Taken

ten Klooster, P.M., Visser, M. & de Jong, M.D.T. (2008) Comparing two image research instruments: The Q-sort method versus the Likert attitude questionnaire. Food Quality & Preference 19(5), 511-518.

Tierney, W.G. (2010) Globalization and life history research: Fragments of a life foretold. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 23(2), 129-146.

Tomasik, T. (2010) Reliability and validity of the Delphi method in guideline development for family physicians. Quality in Primary Care 18(5), 317-326.

Wright, D.W., Simmons, L.A. & Campbell, K. (2007) Does a marriage ideal exist? Using Q-sort methodology to compare young adults' and professional educators' views on healthy marriages. Contemporary Family Therapy 29(4), 223-236.

Wutich, A. (2009). Estimating household water use: A comparison of diary, prompted recall, and free recall methods. Field Methods 21(1), 49-68.

Yoshihara, S., Kanno, N., Fukuda, N., Yamada, Y. et al. (2011) Development and validation of a nighttime sleep diary in asthmatic children. Pediatric Allergy & Immunology 22(7), 667-670.

Additional Resources

Coe, C., Gibson, A., Spencer, N. & Stuttaford, M. (2008). Sure start: Voices of the "hard to reach." Child: Care, Health & Development 34(4), 447-453.

Dressler, W.W., Borges, C.D., Balieiro, M.C. & dos Santos, J.E. (2005). Measuring cultural consonance: Examples with special reference to measurement theory in anthropology. Field Methods 17(4), 331-355.

Fiese, B.H., Winter, M.A., Wamboldt, F.S., Anbar, R.D. & Wamboldt, M.Z. (2010). Do family mealtime interactions mediate the association between asthma symptoms and separation anxiety? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 51(2), 144-151.

Kennedy, D.P. (2005). Scale adaptation and ethnography. Field Methods 17(4), 412-431.

Roininen, K., Arvola, A. & Lahteenmaki, L. (2006). Exploring consumers' perceptions of local food with two different qualitative techniques: laddering and word association. Food Quality & Preference 17(1/2), 20-30.

Ross, N.J., Renold, E., Holland, S. & Hillman, A. (2009). Moving stories: Using mobile methods to explore the everyday lives of young people in public care. Qualitative Research 9(5), 605-623.

Sperschneider, W. & Bagger, K. (2003) Ethnographic fieldwork under industrial constraints: toward deisgn-in-context. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 15(1), 41-50.

Tang, R. & Gavin, M.C. (2010). Traditional ecological knowledge informing resource management: Saxoul conservation in Inner Mongolia, China. Society & Natural Resources 23(3), 193-206.

Whaley, A.L. & Longoria, R.A. (2009). Preparing card sort data for multidimensional scaling analysis in social psychological research: A methodological approach. Journal of Social Psychology 149(1), 105-115.

Wilkinson, S. (2000). Women with breast cancer talking causes: comparing content, biographical and discursive analysis. Feminism & Psychology 10(4), 431-460.

Yoshihama, M., Gillespie, B., Hammock, A.C., Belli, R.F. & Tolman, R.M. (2005). Does the life history calendar method facilitate the recall of intimate partner violence? Comparison of two methods of data collection. Social Work Research 29(3), 151-163.

Some Studies Using Various Techniques

Agheneza, Z.E. (2009). The status of Ngie rural women farmers' socio-economic condition. Journal of Asian & African Studies 44(6), 677-697.

Brewster, Z.W. (2003) Behavioral and interactional patterns of strip club patrons: tipping techniques and club attendance. Deviant Behavior 24, 221-243.

Brown, J.R., Donelan-McCall, N. & Dunn, J. (1996) Why talk about mental states? The significance of children's conversations with friends, siblings and mothers. Child Development 67, 836-849.

Cleaveland, C. (2010). "We are not criminals": Social work advocacy and unauthorized migrants. Social Work 55(1), 74-81.

Cosgrove, L. & Flynn, C. (2005) Marginalized mothers: parenting without a home. Analyses of Social Issues & Public Policy 5(1), 127-143.

Gair, G. & Hartery, T. (2001) Medical dominance in multidisciplinary teamwork: a case study of discharge decision-making in a geriatric assessment unit. Journal of Nursing Management 9, 3-11.

Graham, K. & Wells, S. (2001) Aggression among young adults in the social context of the bar. Addiction Research & Theory 9(3), 193-219.

Grazian, D. (2004) The production of popular music as a confidence game: the case of the Chicago blues. Qualitative Sociology 27(2), 137-158.

Lee, J.P., Moore, R.S. & Martin, S.E. (2003) Unobtrusive observations of smoking in urban California bars. Journal of Drug Issues 33(4), 984-999.

Singer, M., Stopka, T., Siano, C. et al. (2000) The social geography of AIDS and hepatitis risk: qualitative approaches for assessing local differences in sterile-syringe access among injection drug users. American Journal of Public Health 90(7), 1049-1056.

Smart, L.R. & Bisogni, C.A. (2001) Personal food systems of male college hockey players. Appetite 37, 57-70.

Sousa, L., Galante, H., Batel, A. & Hespanha, P. (2003). Observing cities' social inequalities: a cartographic case study of Aveiro, Portugal. Cities 20(4), 241-252.