Ch. 1. Introduction / Marla H. Mallette and Nell K. Duke
Ch. 2. Case-study research / Diane M. Barone
Ch. 3. Inferences from correlational data : exploring associations with reading experience / Keith E. Stanovich and Anne E. Cunningham
Ch. 4. Discourse analysis : conversation / Susan Florio-Ruane and Ernest Morrell
Ch. 5. Discourse analysis : written text / Susan R. Goldman and Jennifer Wiley
Ch. 6. Ethnographic research / Victoria Purcell-Gates
Ch. 7. Experimental and quasi-experimental design in literacy research / Frank R. Vellutino and Christopher Schatscneider
Ch. 8. Connecting research and practice using formative and design experiments / David Reinking and Barbara A. Bradley
Ch. 9. Doing historical research on literacy / Norman A. Stahl and Douglas K. Hartman
Ch. 10. Developing affective instrumentation for use in literacy research / William A. Henk and Michael C. McKenna
Ch. 11. Meta-analysis in reading research / Adriana G. Bus and Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Ch. 12. Neuroimaging in reading research / Jack M. Fletcher, Panagiotis G. Simos, Andrew C. Papanicolaou and Carlyn Denton
Ch. 13. Survey research / James F. Baumann and James J. Bason
Ch. 14. Verbal protocols of reading / Michael Pressley and Katherine Hilden
Ch. 15. Toward a pragmatics of epistemology, methodology, and other people's theories in literacy research / Mark Dressman and Sarah J. McCarthey
Ch. 16. Conclusion / Nell K. Duke and Marla H. Mallette.