
Doing Case Study Research
A Practical Guide for Beginning Researchers
Teachers' College Press
3rd Edition
Published on 30. December 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-8077-5813-7 (ISBN)
Description
Reflecting recent knowledge and developments in the field, this very practical, easy-to-use guide emphasizes learning how to do case study research?from the first step of deciding whether a case study is the way to go to the last step of verifying and confirming findings before disseminating them. The authors show students how to determine an appropriate research design, conduct informative interviews, record observations, document analyses, delineate ways to confirm case study findings, describe methods for deriving meaning from data, and communicate their findings. Featuring many new examples, the Third Edition offers step-by-step guidance to help beginning researchers through the stages of planning and implementing a thesis, dissertation, or independent project. This succinct "how-to" guide is an excellent place for anyone to begin doing case study research.
Book Features:
Straightforward introduction to the science of doing case study research.
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:
Straightforward introduction to the science of doing case study research.
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.
Reviews / Votes
A highly accessible introductory text and a very quick read...Hancock and Algozzine are pedagogically savvy when introducing readers to case study research.- Journal of College Student Development;""Exceptionally well organized and presented, Doing Case Study Research is unreservedly recommended for community and academic library Study Skills Improvement collections.""- Midwest Book Review;
""Doing Case Study Research provides a practical resource for beginning researchers who want a prescriptive step by step guide.""- Teachers College Record;
"While this comprehensive, basic research tool is intended for doing case study research, the book also includes work on research foundations, stages of doing research,? and putting it all together. It is most applicable to a range of research designs, other? than case studies."- Terry Cicchelli, professor emerita, Fordham University;
""Hancock and Algozzine have written the 'go-to' book on case study research. They start out with how case studies fit in with the continuum of qualitative and quantitative research, walk the reader through the stages and methods of case study research, and tie it all together with the "how-to" of preparing proposals and disseminating the results. Each chapter of this easy-to-read text ends with a set of content review questions and activities that guide the reader through applying the material. Doing Case Study Research: A Practical Guide for Beginning Researchers is an essential resource for graduate students and professors working with case study research.""- William Owings, professor, Educational Leadership at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
More details
Edition
Third Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
198 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-5813-7 (9780807758137)
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Persons
Dawson R. Hancock is asssociate dean for research and Graduate Studies and a research professor in the College of Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Bob Algozzine is a research professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Bob Algozzine is a research professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.