The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology: A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences

About R. Burke JohnsonRobert Burke JohnsonW. (William) Paul VogtW. Paul Vogt

W. Paul Vogt is Emeritus Professor of Research Methods and Evaluation at Illinois State University where he won both teaching and research awards. He specializes in methodological choice and program evaluation and is particularly interested in ways to integrate multiple methods. His other books include: Tolerance & Education: Learning to Live with Diversity and Difference (Sage Publications 1998); Quantitative Research Methods for Professionals (Allyn & Bacon 2007); Education Programs for Improving Intergroup Relations (coedited with Walter Stephan Teachers College Press 2004). He is also editor of four 4-volume sets in the series Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods: Selecting Research Methods (2008); Data Collection (2010); Quantitative Research Methods (2011); and with Burke Johnson Correlation and Regression Analysis (2012).His most recent publications include the coauthored When to Use What Research Design (2012) and Selecting the Right Analyses for Your Data: Quantitative Qualitative and Mixed Methods Approaches (2014). Burke Johnson is a professor in the Professional Studies Department at the University of South Alabama. His PhD is from the REMS (research evaluation measurement and statistics) program in the College of Education at the University of Georgia. He also has graduate degrees in psychology sociology and public administration which have provided him with a multidisciplinary perspective on research methodology. He was guest editor for a special issue of Research in the Schools focusing on mixed research (available online at www.msera.org/rits_131.htm) and completed a similar guest editorship for the American Behavioral Scientist. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research. Burke is first author of Educational Research: Quantitative Qualitative and Mixed Approaches (Sage 2014 5th edition); second author of Research Methods Design and Analysis (Pearson 2014 12th edition); coeditor (with Sharlene Hesse-Biber) of The Oxford Handbook of Multimethod and Mixed Methods Research Inquiry (2015); coeditor (with Paul Vogt) of Correlation and Regression Analysis (2012); and associate editor of The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2009).