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Characteristics of a
Case Study
Types of Case Studies
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Case Study or Not a Case Study?
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Case studies are best used for answering these types of questions?
What are how and why questions?
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This type of case study is used to explore those situations in which the intervention being evaluated has no clear, single set of outcomes (Yin, 2003).
What is an exploratory case study?
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individuals, families, couples, gangs
What are people focused units of analysis?
100
Wrote the book "The Art of Case Study Research" and is often referenced as an expert on cased studies.
Who is Robert A Stake?
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"An observational study of the development of a nurse-patient relationship"
What is a case study? (Exploratory) Lotzkar & Bottorff (2001). Clinical Nursing Research, 10, 275-294.
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Case studies use this type of logic which goes from specific to more general terms
What is inductive logic?
200
This type of case study is used to give a detailed account of an intervention or phenomenon and the real-life context in which it occurred (Yin, 2003)
What is a descriptive case study?
200
Ramadan, full moon, 1960s, rainy season, Cuban Missile Crisis
What are time based units of analysis?
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"The correspondence of patient satisfaction and nurse burnout"
What is "not a case study"? Leiter, M. P., Harvie, P., & Frizzell, C. (1998). The correspondence of patient satisfaction and nurse burnout. Social science & medicine, 47(10), 1611-1617.
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Case studies are characterized by the methods used to collect and analyze data and foregoes focusing on a particular unit of analysis. TRUE or FALSE
What is FALSE? case studies “are NOT characterized by the methods used to collect and analyze data, but rather its focus on a particular unit of analysis: a case”
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A case study focusing on for example the culture of a school, a group of students, or a classroom behavior
What is an ethnographic case study?
300
crime report, diary entry, medical records, email
What are document based units of analysis?
300
"More than an education: leadership for rural school-community partnerships"
What is "a case study'? Kilpatrick, S., Johns, S., Mulford, B., Falk, I., & Prescott, L. (2002). More than an education: Leadership for rural school-community partnerships.
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An exploration of a "bounded system" over time through detailed, in-depth data collection involving multiple data sources of information rich in context.
What is a case study?
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According to Stake (1995), researchers who have a genuine interest in the case should use this approach when the intent is to better understand the case. It is undertaken because the case itself is of interest.
What is an intrinsic case study?
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project, program, collaboration, organization
What are structure based units of analysis?
400
A researchers wants to study the role of stress in the professional life of school music teachers in an urban school district
What is "case study"? (collective case study)