Doing Case Study Research: A Practical Guide for Beginning Researchers

by Dawson R. Hancock, Bob Algozzine

This popular handbook has been updated to provide today's beginning researchers with everything they need to plan and implement case studies. Starting with how to establish a rationale for conducting a systematic case study and identify literature that informs the research effort, this 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.

Genres: Research, School, Nonfiction, Education

128 pages, Paperback

First published June 9, 2006

Reviews

[Leslie Barr · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helpful for my child development class.

[Curtis Chamblee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good Book needed for my qualitative class.

[Bojan Fürst · Rating 2 out of 5]

So basic that it is almost useless. On the other hand, if you just want something you can follow as a recipe book - this is sort of it.

[Velda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to read and understand.

[Josiah Aston · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good practical overview of case study research. Provides many additional resources one might use to delve more deeply into it.

[Amber · Rating 4 out of 5]

overall a handy little break down of case study research.

[Karu]

Good overview of the case study method. Recommend to read before doing the research.