A (VERY) BRIEF REFRESHER ON THE CASE STUDY …

3A (VERY) BRIEF REFRESHER ON THE case STUDY METHODThe case STUDY method embraces the full set of procedures needed to do case STUDY research. These tasks include designing a case STUDY , collecting the STUDY s data, ana-lyzing the data, and presenting and reporting the results. (None of the tasks, nor the rest of this book, deals with the development of teaching case studies frequently also referred to as the case STUDY method the pedagogical goals of which may differ entirely from doing research studies.)The present chapter introduces and describes these procedures, but only in the most modest manner. The chapter s goal is to serve as a BRIEF REFRESHER to the case STUDY method. As a REFRESHER , the chapter does not fully cover all the options or nuances that you might encounter when customizing your own case STUDY (refer to Yin, 2009a, to obtain a full rendition of the entire method).Besides discussing case STUDY design, data collection, and analysis, the REFRESHER addresses several key features of case STUDY research.

CHAPTER 1. A (VERY) BRIEF REFRESHER ON THE CASE STUDY METHOD 5 different research methods, including the case study method, can be determined by the kind of research question that a study is trying to address (e.g., Shavelson

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