ED299914 HE021907
Title: Case Study Research in Education. A Qualitative Approach.
Author(s): Merriam, Sharan B.
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 1-55542-108-3
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, P.O. Box 44305, San Francisco,
CA 94144-4305 ($21.95).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Guides--General (050)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Georgia
Journal Announcement: RIEMAR1989
A practical
guide for designing and carrying out qualitative case study in education
is provided. How-to advice for managing all phases of case study
research is included. The focus is on case studies that draw from
what is commonly known as the qualitative research paradigm rather
than a quantitative, positivistic, experimental orientation. Three
sections discuss the following: (1) foundations of qualitative case
study research (the case study approach to research problems, types
and uses of case study research in education, defining a research
problem and selecting a case, and handling theory and literature
reviews in case study research); (2) mastering qualitative data
collection methods (conducting effective interviews, being a careful
observer, and mining data from documents); and (3) analyzing and
reporting case study data (the components of data analysis, using
special techniques and computers to analyze qualitative data, dealing
with validity, reliability, and ethics in case study, and writing
the case study report). Contains 160 references. (SM)
Descriptors: *Case Studies; Data Analysis; Data Collection; Evaluation
Methods; Field Interviews; Field Studies; Higher Education; Literature
Reviews; *Qualitative Research; *Research Methodology
