Dr. Joseph Maddox, assistant professor at the Adrian Dominican School of Education (ADSOE), and Dr. Constance Cawthon, a doctoral graduate of ADSOE, presented at the sixth annual Mixed Methods International Conference held in Baltimore, Md., July 7 through11. Professors, researchers and post-graduate students from 35 countries gathered at the conference held at Johns Hopkins University.  Maddox and Cawthon presented a paper titled “Small-Group Versus One-On-One Educational Therapy” at the conference.

“Dr. Cawthon and I presented a mixed study reflecting learning achievement over a one-year timeline involving National Institute for Learning Development certified teacher educators from several states,” Maddox said. “The 73 students in the sample showed significant improvement in overall reading skills for both treatments administered.”

The Mixed Methods International Conference is a forum for exploring philosophical and methodological issues of mixing art and science and science with social sciences. The 2010 conference was sponsored by the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health, and the University of Leeds in England.

“The conference offered outstanding opportunity to meet with many authors, and I was pleased to attend the inaugural meeting of what will become the International Mixed Methods Association,” Maddox said.