Literacy Research Methodologies

by Duke, Nell K.; Mallette, Marla H.

• ISBN13: 9781593850609
• ISBN10: 1593850603
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-28
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Balanced and authoritative, this book brings together leading experts to present thirteen methodologies widely used in literacy research. An essential text for graduate students in literacy, and an ideal resource for more experienced researchers.

Author Biography

Nell K. Duke, EdD, is Associate Professor of Teacher Education and Learning, Technology, and Culture at Michigan State University, East Lansing. Her research focuses on early literacy development, particularly among children living in urban poverty. Her specific areas of expertise include the development of informational literacies in young children, comprehension teaching and learning in early schooling, approaches to addressing the needs of struggling reader/n-/writers, and issues of equity in literacy education. She has used a variety of research methodologies in her own work and teaches courses on research design. Dr. Duke has a strong interest in the preparation of educational researchers and has published and presented on this topic.

Marla H. Mallette, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her research interests include literacy teacher education, literacy instruction and learning with students of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and the convergence of early literacy and technology. She is very interested in research methodologies and has used various methodologies in her own work. Dr. Mallette has also published and presented on literacy research methodologies and the preparation of literacy researchers.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1. Introduction	1	(6)
Marla H. Mallette and Nell K. Duke
CHAPTER 2. Case-Study Research	7	(21)
Diane M. Barone
CHAPTER 3. Inferences from Correlational Data: Exploring Associations with Reading Experience	28	(18)
Keith E. Stanovich and Anne E. Cunningham
CHAPTER 4. Discourse Analysis: Conversation	46	(16)
Susan Florio-Ruane and Ernest Morrell
CHAPTER 5. Discourse Analysis: Written Text	62	(30)
Susan R. Goldman and Jennifer Wiley
CHAPTER 6. Ethnographic Research	92	(22)
Victoria Purcell-Gates
CHAPTER 7. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Design in Literacy Research	114	(35)
Frank R. Vellutino and Christopher Schatschneider
CHAPTER 8. Connecting Research and Practice Using Formative and Design Experiments	149	(21)
David Reinking and Barbara A. Bradley
CHAPTER 9. Doing Historical Research on Literacy	170	(27)
Norman A. Stahl and Douglas K. Hartman
CHAPTER 10. Developing Affective Instrumentation for Use in Literacy Research	197	(30)
William A. Henk and Michael C. McKenna
CHAPTER 11. Meta-Analysis in Reading Research	227	(25)
Adriana G. Bus and Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
CHAPTER 12. Neuroimaging in Reading Research	252	(35)
Jack M. Fletcher, Panagiotis G. Simos, Andrew C. Papanicolaou, and Carolyn Denton
CHAPTER 13. Survey Research	287	(21)
James F. Baumann and James J. Bason
CHAPTER 14. Verbal Protocols of Reading	308	(14)
Michael Pressley and Katherine Hilden
CHAPTER 15. Toward a Pragmatics of Epistemology, Methodology, and Other People's Theories in Literacy Research	322	(23)
Mark Dressman and Sarah J. McCarthey
CHAPTER 16. Conclusion	345	(10)
Nell K. Duke and Marla H. Mallette
APPENDIX Alphabetical Listing of the Exemplars	355	(2)
INDEX	357