A topic in research methodology
Case study is a research strategy (methodology) that enquires into one specific instance among many possible instances.
Sometimes researchers carry out multiple case studies, where they first undertake the study of a number of individual cases, before comparing across cases.
"There are two potential approaches to cross-case analysis…case-survey approach and a case comparison approach. The case-survey approach requires two conditions that cannot always be satisfied.
First, isolated factors within particular case studies must be worthy of substantive attention;
second, the number of case studies must be large enough to warrant cross-case tabulations. When these conditions exist, cross case comparisons can be made by coding the single factors and establishing cross-case patterns.”
Yin, 1981: 62
Source/s cited:
- Yin, R. K. (1981). The Case Study Crisis: Some Answers. Administrative Science Quarterly, 26(1), 58-65.
My introduction to educational research:
Taber, K. S. (2013). Classroom-based Research and Evidence-based Practice: An introduction (2nd ed.). London: Sage.
