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Multiple Case Study Analysis de Robert E. Stake

Multiple Case Study Analysis

Autor Robert E. Stake
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 noi 2005

Bazându-ne pe resursele furnizate de Guilford Publications și pe profilul academic al autorului, descoperim în Multiple Case Study Analysis un ghid metodologic riguros destinat cercetătorilor din științele sociale și comportamentale. Robert E. Stake propune o metodă structurată de a analiza complexitatea situațională atunci când obiectul de studiu nu este un singur individ sau o singură instituție, ci un program complex desfășurat în locații diferite. Suntem de părere că inovația centrală a acestei lucrări este conceptul de „Quintain” — entitatea colectivă sau fenomenul care este studiat prin intermediul mai multor cazuri specifice.

Structura cărții urmărește o progresie logică, de la înțelegerea cazului individual și a contextului său, până la analiza „cross-case” și redactarea raportului final. Primele secțiuni clarifică dilema dintre particular și general, oferind cercetătorului instrumentele necesare pentru a menține integritatea fiecărui caz în timp ce extrage concluzii valabile pentru întregul program. Găsim în capitolul final o aplicație practică extensivă: proiectul multicaz „Step by Step”, care ilustrează modul în care teoria se traduce în evaluări internaționale reale.

Comparabil cu The Multiple Case Study Design de Daphne Halkias în rigurozitate, volumul de față se distinge prin accentul pus pe triângularea datelor și pe utilizarea fișelor de lucru practice, fiind mai puțin orientat spre mediul de afaceri și mai mult spre cercetarea academică și socială. Față de lucrarea sa anterioară, The Art of Case Study Research, unde se concentra pe profunzimea unui singur caz, Robert E. Stake extinde aici orizontul metodologic către seturi de date multiple, păstrând însă stilul narativ și atenția pentru detaliu care definesc și alte scrieri ale sale, precum Telling Tales.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781593852481
ISBN-10: 1593852487
Pagini: 342
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Guilford Publications
Colecția Guilford Press

Public țintă

Professional Practice & Development

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cercetătorii și studenții care au nevoie de o metodologie clară pentru a gestiona proiecte complexe cu multiple unități de analiză. Cititorul câștigă acces la un proces de analiză testat, completat de instrumente practice precum fișele de lucru. Este recomandată celor care doresc să depășească simpla descriere a cazurilor, vizând o înțelegere profundă a fenomenelor care le leagă, fără a sacrifica specificitatea locală.

Despre autor

Robert E. Stake este un expert recunoscut la nivel internațional în evaluarea programelor și metodologia cercetării calitative. Cu o formare solidă, incluzând un doctorat în psihologie la Princeton University și o vastă experiență la University of Illinois, acesta și-a dedicat cariera rafinării metodelor de evaluare responsivă. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Standards-Based and Responsive Evaluation, reflectă o preocupare constantă pentru modul în care narațiunile și experiența umană pot fi integrate în cercetarea științifică. Abordarea sa este marcată de o înțelegere profundă a contextului educațional și social.

Cuprins

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

Descriere scurtă

Examining situational complexity is a vital part of social and behavioral science research. This engaging text provides an effective process for studying multiple cases--such as sets of teachers, staff development sessions, or clinics operating in different locations--within one complex program. The process also can be used to investigate broadly occurring phenomena without programmatic links, such as leadership or sibling rivalry. Readers learn to design, analyze, and report studies that balance common issues across the group of cases with the unique features and context of each case. Three actual case reports from a transnational early childhood program illustrate the author's approach, and helpful reproducible worksheets facilitate multicase recording and analysis.

Notă biografică

Robert E. Stake is Director of the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is one of several educational researchers who created theory and practice for educational program evaluation in the 1960s. His responsive evaluation approach emphasizes the study of classroom experience, personal interaction, and institutional processes and contexts, often in the form of case studies. Among the evaluative studies he has directed are studies in science and arts education; model programs; and conventional teaching, including higher education, special education and, with Bernadine Evans Stake, gender equity. He is a recipient of the Special Career Award in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, the Lazarsfeld Award from the American Evaluation Association, and the Presidential Citation from the American Educational Research Association, and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and the University of Valladolid, Spain. For many years, Dr. Stake has been a prominent voice in a transatlantic invisible college of like-minded evaluators questioning contexts and conventions for educational evaluation and infusing evaluation with fairness and a valuing of experience.

Recenzii

Researchers in education and social science have worried for decades over how to study multiple cases of the same phenomena and come up with viable conclusions. Robert Stake's careful analysis lays out the problems, the pitfalls, and the dangers of such an enterprise, and provides masterful, amply illustrated, easily understood, and reproducible solutions. All of us who study multiple sites will be grateful for this enormous gift, which analyzes and teaches simultaneously.--Howard S. Becker, PhD, author of Writing for Social Scientists and Tricks of the Trade

“Stake does it again: takes up a murky research problem, such as how to integrate multiple case studies that do or don’t have a common subject, and shows us how to solve it. This book could be the basis for a superb graduate seminar or simply the 'manual' for a research team facing a dozen piles of results from case studies. It would also be excellent supplementary reading for a course in qualitative research methods that would provide students with an appreciation of the difficulties and possibilities of drawing conclusions from words.”--Les McLean, PhD, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (Emeritus), University of Toronto, Canada

This book fills a major gap in the qualitative research and evaluation literature. Although multicase studies are a commonly used strategy, I know of no published work that provides a comprehensive, in-depth, and practical guide to the conduct of such studies. The book embodies the author’s extensive experience and deep understanding of this approach, and manages to be both groundbreaking and user-friendly. The detailed examples of case studies are a major strength of the book. This book would be appropriate as a textbook for advanced courses in qualitative or case study research, and also as a guide and resource for practicing researchers and evaluators.--Joseph A. Maxwell, PhD, Graduate School of Education, George Mason University

Stake offers a very detailed, honest, and perceptive account of the methodology of cross-case analysis, and the dilemmas of generating both the 'case' and the 'generalization.'--Research Professor Ian Stronach, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

Stake's book provides the reader with hands-on experience in doing multicase research, offering theoretical insights, useful worksheets, and technical detail. The international Step by Step Early Childhood program implemented in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia is an ideal study area, with rich contextual data furnishing glimpses of the complexities of changing the patterns and ingrained practices of educational systems.--Henriette Heimgaertner, Bernard van Leer Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands
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