This research cannot ask students to take additional tests -- therefore that whole wing of the research will occur independently from the qualitative survey. The research will have to use scores from prior standardized testing. Additionally, the sequential timing method will allow researchers to make general correlations between the existence of post-tenure review and the perception of educators separately from measuring academic performance. This will allow a foundation for which the quantitative academic performance measures can be interpreted. Both collection of qualitative and quantitative data play "an equally important role in addressing the research problem," (82). However, academic performance can be influenced by other measures, and so the qualitative data representing teacher perceptions should be weighted more heavily. Institutions with and without post-tenure review will then...

This will integrate the two groups in order to allow the context of this research to make general assumptions about any correlations or significant differences.
There will be some challenges within the work. Other factors will no doubt affect academic performance. To account for this, the qualitative data collected from teachers will be weighted as more important, with academic performance as a general assumption which can be included within the findings. Additionally, within this design, "Much effort and expertise is required, particularly because of the con-current data collection and the fact that equal weight is usually given to each data type," (66). Formation of a research team, where separate individuals who have experience in one or the other will help account for this. Thus, the research will need to diversify the…