As I read these chapters on the banks of a lake in Pocahontas, Arkansas, I was reminded again of my distaste for qualitative research. Over the past few weeks, I have hyped myself up, telling myself that doing a "few" case studies wouldn't be so bad. And then...BAM...page 151! Leedy reminds me that qualitative data collection "takes a great deal of time." So I got a little nervous just thinking about the interviews, transcriptions, field notes, and then the analysis of all that data. The information presented in the chapter served as a great refresher and good reality check.
The case study information from Table 6.1 (Leedy, 2013):
Case Study:
- Purpose:
- To understand one person or situation (or perhaps a very small number) in great depth
- Focus:
- One case or a few cases within its/their natural setting
- Methods of Data Collection:
- Observations
- Interviews
- Appropriate written documents and/or audiovisual material
- Methods of Data Analyses:
- Categorization and interpretation of data in terms of common themes
- Synthesis into an overall portrait of the cases(s)
A link to more in-depth information about case studies: http://www.edu.plymouth.ac.uk/resined/Case_study/casest.htm
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