Doing Case Study Research
A Practical Guide for Beginning Researchers
Teachers' College Press
Published on 1. January 2006
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-8077-4708-7 (ISBN)
Description
This practical handbook guides beginning researchers through the stages of planning and implementing case studies. Starting with how to establish a rationale for conducting a systematic case study and identify literature that informs the research effort, this indispensable 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.
Book Features:
A step-by-step approach that speaks directly to the novice investigator.
Many concrete examples to illustrate key concepts.
Questions, illustrations, and activities to reinforce what has been learned.
Book Features:
A step-by-step approach that speaks directly to the novice investigator.
Many concrete examples to illustrate key concepts.
Questions, illustrations, and activities to reinforce what has been learned.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 4 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-4708-7 (9780807747087)
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Persons
Dawson R. Hancock is Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Bob Algozzine is the Codirector of the Behavior and Reading Improvement Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.