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Digest, Issue 01: Summer 2016

Harnessing Discovery: Writing a Strong Mixed-Methods Proposal

For researchers and their teams, it’s important to appreciate that when seeking to incorporate mixed methods, the forms and challenges vary from project to project.
Eli Lieber
Harnessing Discovery: Writing a Strong Mixed-Methods Proposal
Digest, Issue 01: Summer 2016

How and Why: Questions that are Well-suited for Qualitative and Mixed Methods

Understanding the social processes that involve interactions between individuals, or between individuals and their contexts, is essential to responding to inequality.
Vivian Louie
How and Why: Questions that are Well-suited for Qualitative and Mixed Methods
Digest, Issue 01: Summer 2016

Investing in Tools to Create Evidence and Improve Policy

A key approach in our efforts to support impactful research is to invest in the development of tools that enhance the work of many researchers engaged in a common enterprise.
Adam Gamoran
Investing in Tools to Create Evidence and Improve Policy
Digest, Issue 01: Summer 2016

Moving from Data to Research to Policy: What Does it Take?

The potential of big data is multiplied when researchers are able to use it to produce work that is relevant to the leaders who make decisions about policies and practices that affect young people.
Kim DuMont
 and Timothy M. Smeeding
Moving from Data to Research to Policy: What Does it Take?
Digest, Issue 01: Summer 2016

The Value of Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research: Examples from our Portfolio on the Social Settings of Youth Development

Taken together, these studies produced deep insights that would not have been accessible through quantitative research alone.
Vivian Louie
The Value of Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research: Examples from our Portfolio on the Social Settings of Youth Development
Digest, Issue 01: Summer 2016

Using Data to Produce Useful Research Evidence

What steps can we take to ensure that access to big data leads to the production of high-quality, useful research evidence?
Kim DuMont
 and Timothy M. Smeeding
Using Data to Produce Useful Research Evidence
Digest, Issue 01: Summer 2016

Why Qualitative Research?

We believe that qualitative and mixed-methods research is essential to building, understanding, testing, and improving responses to inequality.
Vivian Louie
Why Qualitative Research?

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