The CSLP recently hosted On Qualitizing Revisited, a research workshop led by Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie and organized by Julie Corrigan.
Drawing on Critical Dialectical Pluralism (CDP) 2.0, Dr. Onwuegbuzie reframed qualitizing—the transformation of quantitative data into qualitative meaning—as an interpretive, integrative, and creative process rather than a purely technical procedure. Participants were introduced to his Narrative Profiling Taxonomy, which offers a flexible framework for synthesizing data through story-based representation and for bridging numerical precision with narrative depth across research traditions.
The workshop encouraged participants to reflect on how methodological choices are shaped by epistemological commitments, disciplinary traditions, and ethical considerations. Dr. Onwuegbuzie highlighted the analytic, affective, and arts-based dimensions of data integration, prompting lively exchanges about how qualitizing can expand possibilities for mixed, qualitative, and interdisciplinary research.
The session brought together around 25 participants, primarily graduate students, for an in-depth conversation on qualitizing as a meaning-centered research practice.