Multiple Case Study Analysis (eBook)

Robert E. Stake (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
342 Seiten
The Guilford Press (Verlag)
978-1-4625-1240-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Examining situational complexity is a vital part of social and behavioral science research. 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. Readers learn to design, analyze, and report studies that balance common issues across the group of cases with the unique features and context of each case. Three actual case reports from a transnational early childhood program illustrate the author's approach, and helpful reproducible worksheets facilitate multicase recording and analysis.

Inhalt

1. Single Cases 1.1. Situation and Experience1.2. A Technical View of a Case 1.3. The Quintain1.4. The Case-Quintain Dilemma1.5. The Research Questions1.6. The Particular and the General 1.7. The Contexts1.8. Making the Individual Case Report 2. The Multicase Study 2.1. Staffing 2.2. Selecting Cases2.3. Activity in Its Situation2.4. Data Gathering across Cases 2.5. Triangulation within Cases 3. Cross-Case Analysis 3.1. Rationale3.2. Reading the Collection 3.3. Cross-Case Procedure 3.4. Expected Utility of Cases and Ordinariness of Situations3.5. The Grounds for Assertions 3.6. Cross-Case Assertions 3.7. Triangulation across Cases4. The Report 4.1. Planning the Multicase Report 4.2. Comparing Cases4.3. Advocacy4.4. Generalization5. The Step by Step Case Study Project 5.1. The Open Society Institute and the International Step by Step Association5.2. The Step by Step Approach5.3. Previous Step by Step evaluations5.4. Aims of the Step by Step Multicase Project5.5. Developing Case Topics5.6. Action Research 5.7. Themes for Cross-Case Analysis 5.8. The Teams and the Steering Group 5.9. Training the Case ResearchersThree Step by Step Case Studies 6. The Ukraine Case Study7. The Slovakia Case Study8. The Romania Case Study9. Step by Step Cross-Case Analysis: First Steps

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: behavioral • cases • Childhood • Design • Early • Education • Evaluation • Health • Management • Methodology • Methods • Multiple • nursing • Program • Psychology • Public • qualitative • Research • Science • Social • Sociology • Study • Work
• ISBN-10: 1-4625-1240-2 / 1462512402
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4625-1240-9 / 9781462512409