In this case, I discuss my progression from ethnography toward multimodal ethnography as a necessary methodology to study multiliterate and multimodal lives. I view daily life, social interactions, and meaning-making practices as inherently multimodal. By multimodal, I mean that individuals continually read, interpret, and create meanings that…

This case study outlines the use of multilevel modeling for meta-analysis to analyze the meta-analytic data for a 3-year project. The focus of the project, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, was on comparing the performance (achievement) of undergraduate students who were taught using one of the various types of active…