Case Study Resources
Case Study Methods
Balbach, E. D. 9 California Department of Health Services, (1999). Using Case Studies to do Program Evaluation. http://www.case.edu/affil/healthpromotion/ProgramEvaluation.pdf
(GAO) U.S. General Accounting Office. 1990. Case study evaluations. U.S. General Accounting Office, Program Evaluation and Methodology Division, Washington, D.C. GAO/PEMD-91-10.1.9. http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/10_1_9.pdf
Morra, L.G. and A.C. Friedlander. (no date.) Case Study Evaluations. The World Bank Group. https://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/Data/reports/oed_wp1.pdf
Patton, M.Q. 2002. Qualitative research and evaluation methods, 3rd ed. (in particular, pp.447-452) Sage Publications, Newbury Park, California.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 2008. Case Study from Qualitative Research Guidelines Project. Accessed 10/02/14. http://www.qualres.org/HomeCase-3591.html
Stake, R.E. 2000. Case Studies. In The Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd Ed. Denzin, N.K. and Y.S. Lincoln (eds.) Thousand Oaks, California.
Yin, R.K. 1994. Case study research: design and methods 2nd ed. Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California. 5th Edition is 2014.
Qualitative Data Analysis
Analyze Qualitative Data from Evaluation Toolkit, The Pell Institute. Accessed 10/01/14. http://toolkit.pellinstitute.org/evaluation-guide/analyze/analyze-qualitative-data/
Gibbs, G. R., (2007). 4 Thematic coding and categorizing. Analyzing Qualitative Data. London: SAGE Publications, Ltd. http://www.srmo.sagepub.com/view/analyzing-qualitative-data/n4.xml
Gibbs, G. R., (2010). Coding part 2: Thematic coding. [Web Video]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_YXR9kp1_o
Laidlaw, J. Content Analysis from BetterEvaluation. Accessed 11/05/14.http://betterevaluation.org/evaluation-options/content_analysis
Mountain, A. Thematic Coding from BetterEvaluation. Accessed 11/05/14. http://betterevaluation.org/evaluation-options/content_analysis
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 2008. Common Analytical Approaches from Qualitative Research Guidelines Project. Accessed 11/05/14. http://www.qualres.org/HomeComm-3821.html
Strauss, A. and J. Corbin. 2014. Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory, 4th Ed. Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California (release date 12/05/14).
IPM Case Study Examples
Fournier, A., T. J. Gibb, T.J. & C.Y. Oseto. 2010. Go to the Head of the Class: A Research-based Approach to Understanding Adoption and Implementation of Integrated Pest Management in Schools. Purdue IPM Technical Resource Center, Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN. 375 pp.
Smith, D.T., M.K. Harris and T.X. Liu. 2002. Adoption of Pest Management Practices by Vegetable Growers: A Case Study. American Entomologist, Winter 2002. http://www.entsoc.org/PDF/Pubs/Periodicals/AE/AE-2002/winter/Research-Harris.pdf