Case study: Review

Q1. Choose the correct answers to fill in the blanks:

A case study is an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary _____ within its real-life _____. (Yin, 1984).

• phenomenon, context

• context, phenomenon

• phenomenon, communication

Q2. Choose the suitable answers to fill in the blanks:

A case study is a study of a ‘bounded system’ emphasizing the _____ and _____ of that system, but confiding the attention to those aspects that are relevant to the research problem at the time (Stake, 1988)

• unity, reliability

• unity, wholeness

• validity, wholeness

Q3. What are the most appropriate research questions for Case Study?

• how, what

• how many, how much

• who, what, where, how

Which type of case study is missing in the diagram?

(a)  

Put the above steps for the case study into the correct order (type letters in capital one after another without space, e.g.: DBHG...)

(a)  

Match the types of cases with the examples, type your answer without space, e.g.: 1b2c3e...

(a)  

Fill in the blank with a suitable type of research. Type your answer as followed 1A2B...(without space).

(a)  

Q8. Choose the NOT TRUE statement about the differences between case study and ethnographic research.

• Case study can employ quantitative data and statistical methods.

• Case study is generally more limited in scope.

• Case study includes objective and subjective accounts of data.

Q9. What is the weakness of a case study?

• Comparatively flexible method

• Always a time-consuming method

• Deeply emphasis on the context

Q10. According to Yin (1994), six primary sources of evidence for case study research are:

1.Documentation;

2.Archival records;

3.Direct observation;

4.Participant observation;

5.Physical artifacts and

6 (a)