CASE

STUDY
Javed Iqbal and Keilah Kane
EDPY 559
Group Presentation

LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of this session course participants could
be able to;
Define case study,
Differentiate among different types of case studies,
Discuss the relationship between theory and case

study,
Share issues pertinent to case study.

THINK PAIR AND SHARE

Questions
What do you mean by Case

study?
What kinds of research

questions are phrased for case

study?
In what kind of situation

should you opt for case study?

Have any of you conducted

research using case study? If

so please tell us about it!

WHAT IS CASE STUDY?

Phenomeno
n

Context

Investigation
Researcher

Stake (1995) Yin (2003), Creswell, J. (1998) Baxter, P.

(2003)

WHEN SHOULD YOU USE A

CASE
STUDY IN YOUR RESEARCH?
A) When the researcher is trying to answer how or why

questions
B) When the researcher cannot manipulate the behaviors of those

being studied
C) When the researcher wants to look closer at contextual conditions

relevant to the issue being studied

D) When boundaries between the issue being studied and the

context are not clear

*Baxter and Jack, 2008

HOW TO DETERMINE YOUR

UNIT OF ANALYSIS
Miles and Huberman (1994) stated case study as, a

phenomenon of some sort occurring in a bounded

context. The case is, in effect, your unit of
analysis (p. 25).
Determine what your case study will NOT be
Individual, program, or process

EXAMPLE VIDEO OF CASE

STUDY
Watch for some specifics!

What identifies this example as a case study?

What were the methods of data collection?
What did the researchers conclude?

Groat Sleep Center -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ygvt7G1DLs

THEORY VS CASE
Theory-building approach vs. theory-testing
approach
Theory of the case
Theory for the case (deductive)
Theory from the case (Inductive)
Theory and case (dialogic model)

(Rule & John, 2015)

TYPES OF CASE STUDY

(BAXTER & JACK)
Explanatory
Exploratory
Descriptive
Employed to study
Multiple-case studies

TYPES OF CASE STUDY

Intrinsic
Instrumental
Collective

GROUP WORK
Group No. 1

Group. No. 2

Explanatory

Exploratory

Descriptive

Intrinsic

Instrumental

Collective

PROCESS
Issue

Conceptual
Framework

Data

Not simple but complex

Political historical

Inclusion or non inclusion

Relationship

Data source, database, analysis and report

EXAMPLE ARTICLE
AND DESCRIPTION
Teachers and Childrens Personal Epistemologies for Moral

Education: Case Studies in Early Years Elementary Education

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs

ISSUES WITH CASE

STUDY
How to collect data?
What about external issues?
Poor and irregular definitions (Van

Wynseberghe & Khan, 2007)

Ambiguity and lack of clarity ( Verschuren,

2003)
Little theoretical depth (Rule & John, 2015)

HOW TO DO ANALYSIS AND

REPORT ON IT
Verbal
Data beyond Talk

Transcribing
Coding
Soft ware
Data Source

Hard copy
Soft copies
Hard drive
One drive, google
drive

Data
Manageme
nt

Data
Analysis

Reporting

Unpublished
thesis
Article
Poster
Presentation

HOW CASE STUDY IS

DISTINCT...
Study of a phenomenon in real-life

context
Focuses more on the overall picture
If a group is studied, the behaviors
of the group as a whole are
analyzed, not individuals

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

QUESTIONS?
DISCUSSION?

SOURCES
Baxter, P., & Jack, S. (2008). Qualitative case study methodology:

design and implementation for novice researchers.The qualitative

report,13(4), 544-559.

Study

Brownlee, J., Syu, J.-J., Mascadri, J., Cobb-Moore, C., Walker, S., Johansson, E.,

Ailwood, J. (2012). Teachers and children's personal epistemologies for

moral education: Case studies in early years elementary education.Teaching
and Teacher Education,28(3), 440 450. doi:10.1016/j.tate.2011.11.012

Rule, P., & John, V. M. (2015). A necessary dialogue: Theory in case study

research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 14(4).

Van Wynsberghe, R., & Khan, S. (2007). Redefining case study.

Journal of Qualitative Methods, 6, 80-94.

International

Verschuren, P. (2003). Case study as a research strategy: Some ambiguities

and opportunities. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 6,

121-139.

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