Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Kathleen deMarrais and Stephen D. Lapan -- Being vulnerable and being ethical with/in research / Kit Tisdale -- Historical research / Kate Rousmaniere -- Qualitative interview studies : learning through experience / Kathleen deMarrais -- Owning significance : the critical incident technique in research / Daniel L. Kain -- Focus groups : more than a method of qualitative inquiry / Pamela B. Kleiber -- Exploring life and experience through narrative inquiry / Mary Kay Kramp -- Enjoining positionality and power in narrative work : balancing contentious and modulating forces / Juanita Johnson-Bailey -- Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic studies / Kathryn J. Roulston -- Fieldwork traditions : ethnography and participant observation / Judith Preissle and Linda Grant -- Reinscribing critique in educational ethnography : critical and postcritical ethnography / George W. Noblit -- Critical inquiry in qualitative research : feminist and poststructural perspectives : science "after truth" / Patti Lather -- Case study research / Patricia A. Hays -- Evaluation studies / Stephen D. Lapan -- Participatory evaluation / Gila Garaway -- Multimethod research / Paul A. Schutz, Courtney B. Chambless, and Jessica T. DeCuir -- Survey research / Susan R. Hutchinson -- Single subject experimental research : an overview for practitioners / Karen A. Sealander -- Experimental research to inform educational policy / Lawrence H. Cross and Gabriella M. Belli -- Using multiple methodologies : the case of retention in Chicago / Ernest R. House.