Jennifer C. Greene

Bio: Jennifer C. Greene is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Program evaluation & Context (language use). The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 103 publications receiving 14811 citations. Previous affiliations of Jennifer C. Greene include Ithaca College & Cornell University.

Toward a Conceptual Framework for Mixed-Method Evaluation Designs

Abstract: In recent years evaluators of educational and social programs have expanded their methodological repertoire with designs that include the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods. Such prac...

Mixed Methods in Social Inquiry

Abstract: List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits. Introduction. The Author. PART ONE. CHAPTER ONE: MENTAL MODELS AND MIXED METHODS INQUIRY. Group Discussion. Making Sense of These Conversations: The Concept of Mental Models. Mixed Methods Social Inquiry as Mixing Mental Models. An Invitation to Read This Book. Who Is Invited. CHAPTER TWO: ADOPTING A MIXED METHODS WAY OF THINKING. A Mixed Methods Way of Thinking. Looking Ahead. CHAPTER THREE: THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE CONTEMPORARY MIXED METHODS CONVERSATION. The Philosophical Seeds of Discontent. The Seeds of Discontent in Practice. The Great Qualitative-Quantitative Debate. Rapprochement and the Emergence of the Idea of Mixing Methods. But Troubled Waters Remained. CHAPTER FOUR: CONTESTED SPACES: PARADIGMS AND PRACTICE IN MIXED METHODS SOCIAL INQUIRY. On the Nature of Philosophical Paradigms for Social Inquiry, and Mental Models, Too. Interlude. On the Relationships of Mental Models (and Paradigms) to Practice. A Reflective Stance. My Mixed Methods Story. CHAPTER FIVE: STANCES ON MIXING PARADIGMS AND MENTAL MODELS WHILE MIXING METHODS. Various Stances on Mixing Paradigms While Mixing Methods-An Overview. Reprise. INTERLUDE ONE: AN ILLUSTRATION OF A MIXED METHODS WAY OF THINKING. Study Purpose. Mixed Methods Research Design. Mixed Methods Analysis. Sample Results. PART TWO. CHAPTER SIX: MIXING METHODS ON PURPOSE. Mixing Methods for Better Understanding. Purposes for Mixing Methods. An Illustration of Mixed Methods Purposes in Practice. Practical Procedures for Thinking About and Identifying Mixed Methods Purposes. Mixed Methods Purposes and Stances on Mixing Paradigms While Mixing Methods. CHAPTER SEVEN: DESIGNING MIXED METHODS STUDIES. Mixing Methods at Different Stages of Social Inquiry: Mixed Methods and Mixed Model Designs. Mixing Methods Within a Single Study or Across Studies in a Program of Research. Dimensions of Difference in Mixed Methods Design. Component and Integrated Mixed Methods Designs. Other Formulations of Mixed Methods Design. Illustrations of Mixed Methods Designs in Practice. Connecting Mixed Methods Designs to Mixed Methods Paradigm Stances and Mixed Methods Purposes. INTERLUDE TWO: MIXED METHODS PURPOSES AND DESIGNS IN ACTION. Overall Mixed Methods Purposes and Design. Mixed Methods Contributions to the MTO Study. CHAPTER EIGHT: MIXED METHODS DATA ANALYSIS. Thinking About Mixed Methods Data Analysis. Mixed Methods Data Analysis Strategies. Mixed Methods Data Analysis Exemplars. Reprise. CHAPTER NINE: JUDGING THE QUALITY OF MIXED METHODS SOCIAL INQUIRY. Thinking About Inquiry Criteria in Mixed Methods Social Inquiry. Inference Quality in Mixed Methods Social Inquiry. Legitimation as Quality in Mixed Methods Social Inquiry. Warranting the Quality of Inferences in Mixed Methods Inquiry. An Illustration. CHAPTER TEN: WRITING UP AND REPORTING MIXED METHODS SOCIAL INQUIRY. Writing Up Mixed Methods Social Inquiry: Representation in Social Inquiry. Writing Up Mixed Methods Social Inquiry: Two Preliminary Principles. INTERLUDE THREE: MORE CREATIVITY IN MIXED METHODS DATA ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY. The Metaphor. The Example. An Application of the Archipelago Metaphor. PART THREE. CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE POTENTIAL AND PROMISE OF MIXED METHODS SOCIAL INQUIRY. References. Index. TABLES, FIGURES, & EXHIBITS. TABLES. 6.1. A " Roughly Hewn " List of Inquiry Purposes. 6.2. Connections Between Mixed Methods Paradigm Stances and Purposes. 7.1. Component Mixed Methods Design Examples. 7.2. Integrated Mixed Methods Design Examples. 7.3. Mixed Methods Design Features of the SHATIL Evaluation. 7.4. Mixed Methods Design Features of the RESA Evaluation. 7.5. Connecting Mixed Methods Designs to Mixed Methods Paradigm Stances and Mixed Methods Purposes. 8.1. Summary of Mixed Methods Data Analysis Strategies. 8.2. Classroom and Family Measures in the Ecological Systems Study. 8.3. Site-level Implementation of the REA Reading Principles, by Data Set. FIGURES. 10.1. Standard Representation of Survey Results. 10.2. Alternative Representation of Survey Results. EXHIBIT. 5.1. Mixing Methods and Mixing Paradigms or Mental Models?

Advances in mixed-method evaluation : the challenges and benefits of integrating diverse paradigms

Abstract: Evaluation theory and practice today are characteristically pluralistic, embracing diverse perspectives, methods, data, and values within and across studies that aim to generate more insightful and meaningful evaluative claims. This volume seeks to strengthen the promise of pluralistic evaluation by advancing an enhanced conceptual framework for planning and implementing mixed-method evaluation studies. Previous mixed-method work has concentrated on the technical level of method, focusing on combining qualitative and quantitative methods within one evaluation study. The present mixed-method volume addresses the philosophical level of paradigm, analyzing the challenges of combining in one study different, even conflicting, assumptions about the nature of social phenomena and our claims to know them. The volume argues for a shift in the mixed-method conversation. The shift would be away from a preoccupation with explicit assumptive differences among paradigms, such as objectivity-subjectivity and realism-relativism, and toward other characteristics of social inquiry traditions. Such characteristics define these traditions in important ways but are not logically irreconcilable. The significant advance here is to redirect the bases for mixing methods away from what may well be incommensurable philosophical assumptions and toward other inquiry characteristics that can more productively share a common analytic space. Through analysis of illustrative cases, this volume presents an array of conceptual and practical ideas for promising mixed-method inquiry directions. This is the 74th issue of the quarterly journal" New Directions for Evaluation."

Is Mixed Methods Social Inquiry a Distinctive Methodology

Abstract: This article addresses the merits of and warrants for considering mixed methods social inquiry as a distinctive methodology. In each of four methodological domains—philosophy, methodology, practical guidelines, and sociopolitical commitments—the status of the mixed methods field is reviewed. Signal accomplishments are noted in each domain, as are important priorities for further development.

Handbook of Communication and Social Interaction Skills

Abstract: Contents: J.M. Wiemann, Foreword. J.O. Greene, B.R. Burleson, Preface. Part I:General Theoretical and Methodological Issues. S.R. Wilson, C.M. Sabee, Explicating Communicative Competence as a Theoretical Term. J.O. Greene, Models of Adult Communication Skill Acquisition: Practice and the Course of Performance Improvement. B.H. Spitzberg, Methods of Interpersonal Skill Assessment. C. Segrin, M. Givertz, Methods of Social Skills Training and Development. Part II:Fundamental Interaction Skills. J.K. Burgoon, A.E. Bacue, Nonverbal Communication Skills. R.E. Sanders, Applying the Skills Concept to Discourse and Conversation: The Remediation of Performance Defects in Talk-in-Interaction. C.R. Berger, Message Production Skill in Social Interaction. R.S. Wyer, Jr., R. Adaval, Message Reception Skills in Social Communication. S. Metts, E. Grohskopf, Impression Management: Goals, Strategies, and Skills. Part III:Function-Focused Communication Skills. K.E. Rowan, Informing and Explaining Skills: Theory and Research on Informative Communication. D. Hample, Arguing Skill. J.P. Dillard, L.J. Marshall, Persuasion as a Social Skill. D.J. Canary, Managing Interpersonal Conflict: A Model of Events Related to Strategic Choices. B.R. Burleson, Emotional Support Skills. J. Mandelbaum, How to "Do Things" With Narrative: A Communication Perspective on Narrative Skill. Part IV:Skills in Close Personal Relationships. W. Samter, Friendship Interaction Skills Across the Life Span. K. Dindia, L. Timmerman, Accomplishing Romantic Relationships. A.B. Kelly, F.K. Fincham, S.R.H. Beach, Communication Skills in Couples: A Review and Discussion of Emerging Perspectives. C.H. Hart, L.D. Newell, S.F. Olsen, Parenting Skills and Social-Communicative Competence in Childhood. Part V:Skills in Public and Professional Contexts. M.E. Roloff, L.L. Putnam, L. Anastasiou, Negotiation Skills. D.S. Gouran, Communication Skills for Group Decision Making. J.A. Daly, A.L. Vangelisti, Skillfully Instructing Learners: How Communicators Effectively Convey Messages. R.L. Street, Jr., Interpersonal Communication Skills in Health Care Contexts. C. Hajek, H. Giles, New Directions in Intercultural Communication Competence: The Process Model.

Mixed Methods Research: A Research Paradigm Whose Time Has Come

Abstract: The purposes of this article are to position mixed methods research (mixed research is a synonym) as the natural complement to traditional qualitative and quantitative research, to present pragmatism as offering an attractive philosophical partner for mixed methods research, and to provide a framework for designing and conducting mixed methods research. In doing this, we briefly review the paradigm “wars” and incompatibility thesis, we show some commonalities between quantitative and qualitative research, we explain the tenets of pragmatism, we explain the fundamental principle of mixed research and how to apply it, we provide specific sets of designs for the two major types of mixed methods research (mixed-model designs and mixed-method designs), and, finally, we explain mixed methods research as following (recursively) an eight-step process. A key feature of mixed methods research is its methodological pluralism or eclecticism, which frequently results in superior research (compared to monomethod resear...

Toward a Definition of Mixed Methods Research

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to examine how the field of mixed methods currently is being defined. The authors asked many of the current leaders in mixed methods research how they define mixed methods research. The authors provide the leaders' definitions and discuss the content found as they searched for the criteria of demarcation. The authors provide a current answer to the question, What is mixed methods research? They also briefly summarize the recent history of mixed methods and list several issues that need additional work as the field continues to advance. They argue that mixed methods research is one of the three major “research paradigms” (quantitative research, qualitative research, and mixed methods research). The authors hope this article will contribute to the ongoing dialogue about how mixed methods research is defined and conceptualized by its practitioners.

Toward a Conceptual Framework for Mixed-Method Evaluation Designs

Abstract: In recent years evaluators of educational and social programs have expanded their methodological repertoire with designs that include the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods. Such prac...

Review of community-based research: assessing partnership approaches to improve public health.

Abstract: Community-based research in public health focuses on social, structural, and physical environmental inequities through active involvement of community members, organizational representatives, and researchers in all aspects of the research process. Partners contribute their expertise to enhance understanding of a given phenomenon and to integrate the knowledge gained with action to benefit the community involved. This review provides a synthesis of key principles of community-based research, examines its place within the context of different scientific paradigms, discusses rationales for its use, and explores major challenges and facilitating factors and their implications for conducting effective community-based research aimed at improving the public’s health.