You will find these resource helpful if you are in a doctoral program, especially if you are implementing mixed methods in your dissertation!

1. Serving your doctoral student needs

3.  Ivankova, N., Creswell, J., & Stick, S. (2006). Using
mixed methods sequential explanatory design: From
theory to practice. Field methods, 18(1), 3-20.
 This article is specific to using sequential
explanatory design in mixed methods research,
where a quantitative first phase informs the second
qualitative phase. There are useful notes as to how to
format your methods section in this article.
 Evans, B., Coon, D., & Ume, E. (2011). Use of
theoretical framework as a pragmatic guide for mixed
methods studies: A methodological necessity?
Journal of Mixed methods Research, 5(4), 276-292.
 Ah, the elusive theoretical framework. For those of
you engaging in mixed methods research, keep in
mind that typically theoretical frameworks hold true
to a specific ideology, which means that typically
they work best in EITHER quantitative OR
qualitative work, but not a mix of the two. Decisions,
decisions.
 Creswell, J. (2013). Qualitative inquiry and research
design: Choosing among five approaches. 3rd ed. Los
Angeles: SAGE.
 Creswell is the man. If you have yet to purchase this
book, you should. Another one of my favorites is the
fourth edition Educational Research: Planning,
Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and
qualitative research. The man breaks down not only
chapter by chapter how you should write and conduct
your research, but also gives you templates for each
HEADING that should be in your prospectus and
dissertation. Awesome.
The chosen articles/books are
those that I’ve found most useful
over the course of writing my
prospectus. I’m using a mixed
methodology, but some of these
sources have information about
qualitative and quantitative
ideologies as well.

4.  Courtesy of phdcomics.com

5.  Rhone, M. (2010). Types of professors: Surprising info about adjuncts. Retrieved from
http://www.stateuniversity.com/blog/permalink/types-of-professors-surprising-info-
about-adjuncts.html.
 An article that does not drone on and on about the differences between a visiting
professor, associate professor, assistant professor, and all the hoopla in academic speak but
rather lists them bluntly.
 Sullivan, A.L., & Harris, B. (2012). So you want to be a professor? Perspectives on the
academic job search process- Part I. The School Psychologist. Retrieved from
http://www.apadivisions.org/division-16/publications/newsletters/school-
psychologist/2012/07/academic-job-search.aspx
 So now you know what the difference between different types of professors is. But how do
you apply to become one? Ah, just the article for you. Enter here and you will find all the
information that you can find about how to APPLY for a job, including websites where you
can find open positions, and what kind of CV and letters of recommendation search
committees are looking for.
 Sullivan, A.L., Proctor, S.L., & Clemens, N. (2012). So you want to be a professor? Part II.
The School Psychologist. Retrieved from http://www.apadivisions.org/division-
16/publications/newsletters/school-psychologist/2012/12/becoming-a-professor.aspx
 But what if you get a call and now you are going to get interviewed? Follow up with the
same author regarding interview procedures, what you should and shouldn’t do,
and…drumroll…specific interview questions you should be prepared for. You are welcome.

6. I can hear you singing…let it go, let it goooo!

7.  Now that I’ve shared my sources with you, I will
demonstrate my knowledge regarding how the chosen
tools function for doctoral students.
 Doctoral students are used to reading articles. However, it is
sometimes hard to find the “gold-mine” article that you will
keep coming back to. I’ve tried to do my best to do this for
you. I find the articles and research that I’ve shared to be very
useful for me in my journey.
 I contemplated sharing a variety of tools that I know are good
for teachers, but not all of us are teachers. All of us are,
however, doctoral students, and sometimes it’s easy to get lost
under the papers in your office. Building a support system
within the doctoral program is so important, and I feel like
this may be a good step forward in doing so.

8. I demonstrate knowledge of curation/sharing by
incorporating the idea of the “gold mine” of
research articles that my source provides. This
is exactly what curation is; the aggregation of
reliable or applicable sources for specific
purposes. I share these sources in a way that is
easy to access but also attributes the authorship
to the appropriate sources.

9. Data mining’s purpose is
to investigate sources or
large databases in order
to generate new
information.
While as curation’s purpose
is to organize and
maintain information for a
particular purpose.
i.e.
Pintrest
I.e. consumer profiling &
targeting (Reyman, 2013)

10.  I demonstrates knowledge of intellectual
property issues by citing my sources in a
way which allows the audience to find
the original author. This becomes harder
to do as you venture into secondary and
tertiary sources . This used to be an issue
that spanned, for example, a primary
source to a secondary summary to a
tertiary textbook, but nowadays with the
Internet it becomes so hard to trace back
primary sources that intellectual
property is sometimes lost (or even
fraudulent).
Case in point: “Essjay, a private
university professor who
posted frequently for over a
year on Wikipedia editing
various religion articles is
found out to not only be a
fraud, but someone who didn’t
have a PhD and used “Religion
for Dummies" as his one
source.
Romero, F., (2011). Editor found
to be a fraud. Retrieved from
http://content.time.com/time/
specials/packages/article/0,28
804,2042333_2042334_2042575,
00.html

11. Sidebar: this is an example of how intellectual property is so hard to
keep on the Internet. I know that PhD comics are comics that have
original authors, but once they go past the site it’s hard to find
appropriate attribution! All I know is that all of the images are
copyrighted by Jorge Cham.