Quantitative Criticalism in Education Research

Abstract

The purpose of this manuscript is to educate scholars about emerging approaches to critical quantitative research. We begin by providing our positionalities as scholars to situate ourselves within this content. Next, we overview quantitative criticalism and explore tensions inherent within this approach. Following, we discuss quantitative criticalism examples in education research to highlight specific quantitative methods and critical theories and to overview opportunities for using quantitative criticalism. We close by providing implications for our intended audiences, primarily directing our recommendations to scholars who employ quantitative methods and/or critical perspectives in education research.

Keywords:

• quantitative,
• critical,
• method,
• epistemology