Case Study Research

Dr. Ayaz Muhammad Khan

Director Division of Education, Lahore, Pakistan
Email: ayaz@ue.edu.pk
 Case Study!
▪ A case study is a research strategy and an empirical inquiry that investigates a
phenomenon within its real-life context. Case studies are based on an in-depth
investigation of a single individual, group or event to explore the causes of underlying
principles. In the social and life sciences, a case study is a research method involving
an up-close, in-depth, and detailed examination of. a particular case
 Why We use CS!
▪ A case study is a research methodology that has commonly used in social sciences.
▪ A case study is a research strategy and an empirical inquiry that investigates a
phenomenon within its real-life context.
▪ Case studies are based on an in-depth investigation of a single individual, group or
event to explore the causes of underlying principles.
▪ A case study is a descriptive and exploratory analysis of a person, group or event.
▪ A case study research can be single or multiple case studies, includes quantitative
evidence, relies on multiple sources of evidence and benefits from the prior
development of theoretical propositions.
▪ Case studies are analysis of persons, groups, events, decisions, periods, policies,
institutions or other systems that are studied holistically by one or more methods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuG8AzK9GVQ
 History
▪ Frederic Le Play first introduced the case-study method into social science in
1829 as a handmaiden to statistics in his studies of family budgets.
▪ In all these disciplines, case studies were an occasion for postulating new
theories, as in the grounded-theory work of sociologists Barney Glaser (1930-
) and Anselm Strauss (1916-1996).
▪ One of the areas in which case studies have been gaining popularity is
education and in particular educational evaluation.
▪ Comparative case studies, in social science, policy, and education research;
discusses one approach, which encourages researchers to compare
horizontally, vertically, and temporally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_study
Types of Case Study
Steps of Case Study

Alan Harrison
https://slideplayer.com/slide/5712126/
 Data Analysis

J. W. Maxwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQfoq7c4UE4
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