Reconciling Traditional Quantitative Methods With the Imperative for Equitable, Critical, and Ethical Research

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Quantitative research has contributed to sharpening color lines, promoting white supremacy, and essentializing groups as monolithic. This session confronts this history head on with conversations among scholars at the vanguard of transforming research paradigms (e.g., QuantCrit, Intersectionality) and moves the field forward in how scholars can design and implement research and measurement that improve upon customary quantitative methods. While mixed methods and qualitative paradigms are more immediately amenable to counter-narratives and critical methods, this session acknowledges that the need for quantitative data and analysis is not going away, but needs to be interrogated. The proposed session urges users to evolve their approaches as a way to foster racial equity in their methodological approaches.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Tia C. Madkins, University of Texas at Austin

Participants

• Nichole M. Garcia, Rutgers University

• Yasmiyn Irizarry, University of Texas at Austin

• Nancy López, University of New Mexico

• Jennifer Randall, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Discussant

• Lolita A. Tabron, University of Denver