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

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

ERM: Systematic Reviews!

Page Count

9

DOI

10.18260/1-2--40829

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https://peer.asee.org/40829

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David Reeping University of Cincinnati

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Dr. David Reeping is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Cincinnati. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech and was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He received his B.S. in Engineering Education with a Mathematics minor from Ohio Northern University. His main research interests include curricular complexity, transfer student pathways, threshold concepts, and advancing quantitative and fully integrated mixed methods.

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Abstract

This work-in-progress paper introduces an emerging method for conducting a systematic methodological review of mixed methods publications, which we apply to engineering education research. Although a smattering of methodological reviews exists, studies to understand how researchers approach integration, the central feature of mixed methods designs, in engineering education are scarce. By applying a network-analytic model to visualize design procedures, specifically ego network analysis, and typologies of integration strategies, we can map the mechanisms by which engineering education researchers perform integration in their studies. From these networks, ego networks of integration strategies can be generated that can inform scholars inside and outside the field how previous studies have combined different methods. The direct impact on the field is a comprehensive examination of integrative procedures in engineering education research adaptable to various mixed methods designs.

Keywords: Mixed methods research; content analysis; network analysis; methodological review

Reeping, D. (2022, August), Work in Progress: Using Ego Network Analysis to Analyze How Engineering Education Researchers Construct Mixed Methods Designs Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40829

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