Doing Case Study Research: A Practical Guide for Beginning Researchers

✍ Scribed by Dawson R. Hancock

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 122
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This practical handbook guides beginning researchers through the stages of planning and implementing case studies. Starting with how to establish a rationale for conducting a systematic case study and identify literature that informs the research effort, this indispensable resource shows students how to determine an appropriate research design and conduct informative interviews, observations, and document analyses. It also describes methods for deriving meaning from data and communicating the results. Finally, the authors delineate the ways to verify the results attained. Students and advisors can use these easy-to-follow steps to shape a thesis, dissertation, or independent project from conceptualization to completion.

Book Features: * A step-by-step approach that speaks directly to the novice investigator. * Many concrete examples to illustrate key concepts. * Questions, illustrations, and activities to reinforce what has been learned.

✦ Table of Contents

0807747076......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
RATIONALE......Page 11
COURSE APPLICATIONS......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
PART I: Background Information......Page 16
1: Scientific Inquiry......Page 18
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 21
2: Qualitative and Quantitative Research......Page 22
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 26
PART II: Stages of Doing Case Study Research......Page 28
3: Setting the Stage......Page 30
WHAT HAS BEEN STUDIED USING CASE STUDY RESEARCH?......Page 32
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PRACTICE......Page 38
CONTENT REVIEW......Page 39
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 40
4: Determining What We Know......Page 41
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PRACTICE......Page 43
CONTENT REVIEW......Page 44
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 45
5: Selecting a Design......Page 46
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PRACTICE......Page 49
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 53
6: Gathering Information from Interviews......Page 54
ILLUSTRATION FROM PRACTICE......Page 56
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 60
7: Gathering Information from Observations......Page 61
DESIGN ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 62
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PRACTICE......Page 63
CONTENT REVIEW......Page 64
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 65
8: Gathering Information from Documents......Page 66
AUTHENTICITY OF DOCUMENTS......Page 67
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PRACTICE......Page 68
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 70
9: Summarizing and Interpreting the Information......Page 71
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PRACTICE......Page 73
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 75
10: Reporting Findings......Page 76
HOW TO SYNTHESIZE FINDINGS......Page 77
DESIGN ILLUSTRATION......Page 78
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 79
11: Confirming Case Study Findings......Page 81
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PRACTICE......Page 82
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 83
PART III: Putting It All Together......Page 84
INTRODUCTION......Page 86
METHOD......Page 87
SUPPORTING MATERIALS......Page 88
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT RESEARCH PROPOSALS......Page 89
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 92
13: Disseminating Case Study Research......Page 93
RESULTS......Page 94
DISCUSSION......Page 95
ACTIVITIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE RESEARCHERS......Page 96
Epilogue......Page 98
Key Terms......Page 100
References......Page 104
Annotated Bibliography......Page 108
C......Page 116
I......Page 117
O......Page 118
R......Page 119
Z......Page 120
About the Authors......Page 121