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The methodological decisions that researchers make tend to reflect academic training, historical and contemporary disciplinary traditions, institutional and departmental initiatives or centers, collegial or collaborative relationships, extramural funding, and personal beliefs and values. In fact, all of these factors shape what researchers investigate, and the research record of scholars generally shapes what they continue to do—the focus of their investigations and the approaches that they use in their research work. In turn, the research work that faculty advisors do may shape what their doctoral students do in their dissertation work. What is more, students’ personal and professional interests—particularly in applied program contexts—and curricular areas of focus may inform the empirical and conceptual literature that they review and dissertation methodology that they ultimately develop.