ABSTRACT

I’ve addressed this chapter to researchers whose preconceptions about quantitative research lead them away from it. For this audience, I hope my chapter will break some stereotypes and blur some false distinctions between quantitative and qualitative methods. A secondary audience is researchers who seek methodological ideas that might help to advance understanding in multicultural education. Included in this second audience are persons concerned with the fact that the legitimacy of an emerging field is enhanced by the methodological soundness of studies done in it.