Case Study

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According to Stake (1988), a case study is a study of …………….. Emphasizing the unity and wholeness of that system, but confiding the attention to those aspects that are relevant to the research problem at the time.

Match the following

• D. Providing an understanding of the educative processes operating within an institution

• An evaluative case study

• D. Providing an understanding of the educative processes operating within an institution

• An ethnographic case study

• A. single in-depth investigation of a system, commonly using participant observation

• An critical action case study

• Introduction of a program is evaluated in detailed to investigate the outcomes and processes.

• An educational case study

Reorder the following

• - Formulate the research question

  - Define participant

• - Define the problem

  - Search and review the literature

• - Select data-gathering instruments

  - Collect data

•  - Discussion and recommendation

• - Analyze the data

  - State the results

Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE about the main characteristics of the Case study?

• Collecting data about a specific individual, object, or

  group

• Using multiple sources of evidence, including accounts

  from the subjects themselves.

• Studying events and subjects from real-life contexts.

• Drawing conclusions about the research and unlimited them to the subject(s) with the defined context only.

There are five issues with the methodology of the case study. Here are 4 issues, list the 5th.

1. Initial problem formulation

2. Defining the unit of study and its

boundaries

3. Data collection techniques and researcher

role

4. Analysis – the search for patterns

What is the purpose of the case study? 

•  to understand the complexity and dynamic nature of a particular entity. 

• to gain rich information about an individual learner, processes, and strategies he uses to learn and communicate. 

•  to give the case in its context

•   to achieve goals by interacting with the learning environment and the precise nature of his linguistic growth.

What Case study may be used to investigate? (choose more than 1 answer)

• Learning of a second or foreign language

• Coping with academic content in second/foreign language (academic listening experiences of ESL Ss in university courses)

• Scaffolding, problem-solving and second/foreign language learning (L2 learning and content learning interact younger students)

• Research strategies

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……………….. about a specific individual, object, or group

Fill in the blank with a word 

A ………. of analysis: a learner, a teacher, a class, a school, an agency, an institution, etc.

Here is Benson’s (1989) case study  of university academic listening. Choose 2 boundaries of this case study:

•  Listening and note-taking activities of Ss 

•  The important programs: ESL bilingual, regular program

• Contextual factors that contributed to sharing Ss’ education experiences: administration, teachers, aides, students, parents

• Lectures, lecture notes, expectations of lecturer for Ss performance