By The Numbers: A Review of Quantitative Research Methods in Journal of Engineering Education From 2012 to 2022.

Engineering education is a fast-growing field. As research questions have become more intricate and nuanced, there have been calls for more sophisticated quantitative methods in engineering education. Traditional quantitative research methods have a long history in educational research, and have been important in developing our understanding of how learning within engineering occurs. However, development of new and advanced quantitative methods allows researchers to conduct more nuanced analyses of student outcomes. In particular, methods for conducting person-centered analyses and analyzing large and nested data sets have become more pervasive in educational research. In this paper, we present a systematic review of 302 papers published in JEE from 2012 to 2022. Specifically, we examined which quantitative methods are used in JEE to develop a picture of the state of quantitative methods in engineering education. The results found that while a large number of studies used basic statistical testing, there is a trend of more advanced quantitative methods being used over the years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]