Multiple Case Study Analysis
Guilford Publications (Verlag)
9781593852481 (ISBN)
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.
Robert E. Stake is Director of the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is one of several educational researchers who created theory and practice for educational program evaluation in the 1960s. His responsive evaluation approach emphasizes the study of classroom experience, personal interaction, and institutional processes and contexts, often in the form of case studies. Among the evaluative studies he has directed are studies in science and arts education; model programs; and conventional teaching, including higher education, special education and, with Bernadine Evans Stake, gender equity. He is a recipient of the Special Career Award in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, the Lazarsfeld Award from the American Evaluation Association, and the Presidential Citation from the American Educational Research Association, and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and the University of Valladolid, Spain. For many years, Dr. Stake has been a prominent voice in a transatlantic invisible college of like-minded evaluators questioning contexts and conventions for educational evaluation and infusing evaluation with fairness and a valuing of experience.
1. Single Cases
1.1. Situation and Experience
1.2. A Technical View of a Case
1.3. The Quintain
1.4. The Case-Quintain Dilemma
1.5. The Research Questions
1.6. The Particular and the General
1.7. The Contexts
1.8. Making the Individual Case Report
2. The Multicase Study
2.1. Staffing
2.2. Selecting Cases
2.3. Activity in Its Situation
2.4. Data Gathering across Cases
2.5. Triangulation within Cases
3. Cross-Case Analysis
3.1. Rationale
3.2. Reading the Collection
3.3. Cross-Case Procedure
3.4. Expected Utility of Cases and Ordinariness of Situations
3.5. The Grounds for Assertions
3.6. Cross-Case Assertions
3.7. Triangulation across Cases
4. The Report
4.1. Planning the Multicase Report
4.2. Comparing Cases
4.3. Advocacy
4.4. Generalization
5. The Step by Step Case Study Project
5.1. The Open Society Institute and the International Step by Step Association
5.2. The Step by Step Approach
5.3. Previous Step by Step evaluations
5.4. Aims of the Step by Step Multicase Project
5.5. Developing Case Topics
5.6. Action Research
5.7. Themes for Cross-Case Analysis
5.8. The Teams and the Steering Group
5.9. Training the Case Researchers
Three Step by Step Case Studies
6. The Ukraine Case Study
7. The Slovakia Case Study
8. The Romania Case Study
9. Step by Step Cross-Case Analysis: First Steps
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.11.2005 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 510 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781593852481 / 9781593852481 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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