Multiple Case Study Analysis
Published on 29. April 2013
342 pages
978-1-4625-1240-9 (ISBN)
Description
Graduate students and researchers in the behavioral and social sciences, including psychology, education, social work, sociology, management, public health, and nursing. The book's sample cases are drawn from early childhood education programs, which will appeal to early childhood education researchers and administrators. Serves as a supplemental text in graduate-level courses in case study research, qualitative research methods, evaluation, and applied research.
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Robert E. Stake
Multiple Case Study Analysis
Book
11/2005
1st Edition
Guilford Publications
€67.00
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Robert E. Stake, PhD, Department of Educational Psychology (Emeritus), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Content
1. Single Cases
1.1. Situation and Experience
1.2. A Technical View of a Case
1.3. The Quintain
1.4. The Case-Quintain Dilemma
1.5. The Research Questions
1.6. The Particular and the General
1.7. The Contexts
1.8. Making the Individual Case Report
2. The Multicase Study
2.1. Staffing
2.2. Selecting Cases
2.3. Activity in Its Situation
2.4. Data Gathering across Cases
2.5. Triangulation within Cases
3. Cross-Case Analysis
3.1. Rationale
3.2. Reading the Collection
3.3. Cross-Case Procedure
3.4. Expected Utility of Cases and Ordinariness of Situations
3.5. The Grounds for Assertions
3.6. Cross-Case Assertions
3.7. Triangulation across Cases
4. The Report
4.1. Planning the Multicase Report
4.2. Comparing Cases
4.3. Advocacy
4.4. Generalization
5. The Step by Step Case Study Project
5.1. The Open Society Institute and the International Step by Step Association
5.2. The Step by Step Approach
5.3. Previous Step by Step evaluations
5.4. Aims of the Step by Step Multicase Project
5.5. Developing Case Topics
5.6. Action Research
5.7. Themes for Cross-Case Analysis
5.8. The Teams and the Steering Group
5.9. Training the Case Researchers
Three Step by Step Case Studies
6. The Ukraine Case Study
7. The Slovakia Case Study
8. The Romania Case Study
9. Step by Step Cross-Case Analysis: First Steps
1.1. Situation and Experience
1.2. A Technical View of a Case
1.3. The Quintain
1.4. The Case-Quintain Dilemma
1.5. The Research Questions
1.6. The Particular and the General
1.7. The Contexts
1.8. Making the Individual Case Report
2. The Multicase Study
2.1. Staffing
2.2. Selecting Cases
2.3. Activity in Its Situation
2.4. Data Gathering across Cases
2.5. Triangulation within Cases
3. Cross-Case Analysis
3.1. Rationale
3.2. Reading the Collection
3.3. Cross-Case Procedure
3.4. Expected Utility of Cases and Ordinariness of Situations
3.5. The Grounds for Assertions
3.6. Cross-Case Assertions
3.7. Triangulation across Cases
4. The Report
4.1. Planning the Multicase Report
4.2. Comparing Cases
4.3. Advocacy
4.4. Generalization
5. The Step by Step Case Study Project
5.1. The Open Society Institute and the International Step by Step Association
5.2. The Step by Step Approach
5.3. Previous Step by Step evaluations
5.4. Aims of the Step by Step Multicase Project
5.5. Developing Case Topics
5.6. Action Research
5.7. Themes for Cross-Case Analysis
5.8. The Teams and the Steering Group
5.9. Training the Case Researchers
Three Step by Step Case Studies
6. The Ukraine Case Study
7. The Slovakia Case Study
8. The Romania Case Study
9. Step by Step Cross-Case Analysis: First Steps
