Quantitative Ethnography: Utilizing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Strengthen Physics Education Research

As physics education researchers work to improve the experience of people in physics, it is essential to develop and apply methodological tools that support and strengthen our research. In this presentation, we explore quantitative ethnography, a novel methodology, as a promising approach to centering the lived experiences of marginalized populations while maintaining statistical rigor in analysis. We discuss how this methodology can provide qualitative researchers with statistical power to make stronger claims regarding participants' connection of concepts, meaning making, and interpretation. In this presentation, we will discuss several aspects of the coding process essential to quantitative ethnography.