This engaging text provides an effective process for studying multiple cases—such as sets of teachers, staff development sessions, or clinics operating in different locations—within one complex program. The process also can be used to investigate broadly occurring phenomena without programmatic links, such as leadership or sibling rivalry. Showing the reader how to design and analyze multicase studies, the book provides clear guidelines for:

• Balancing the common issues across the group of cases with the unique features and context of each case
• Identifying primary research questions for the study
• Gathering and reporting data on the individual cases
• Conducting multicase analysis and formulating key findings, themes, and assertions
• Reporting and summarizing the multicase study

Special features include three actual case reports from the Step by Step program, an early childhood education program operating primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as helpful reproducible worksheets that facilitate multicase recording and analysis. Examining situational complexity is a vital part of social and behavioral science research, and this book will provide readers with a technique to do this by closely examining several or more cases linked together within a program.