{"id":1238,"date":"2009-09-11T03:01:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/case-study-research\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:32","slug":"case-study-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/case-study-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study &#8220;Research&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to get my head around &#8220;case study research&#8221;. While I have read countless case studies, I tend not to put them in the category of <i><b>research<\/b><\/i>. Too often they read like &#8220;what I did last summer&#8221; reports where (again) I question the value to anyone but the souls associated directly with the situation at hand. However, I&#8217;ll plow forward knowing this is all about giving it the old college try this semester \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So, the readings describe <b>cases <\/b>as bounded systems and apparently some view case study research less about a methodology as the subject of the study &#8230; however, for the purpose of class we are considering a case study the subject, method, and means to report &#8230; clear as mud. Right away the issue of coming up with representative case(s) comes up. I can get my head around a &#8220;unique&#8221; situation case better than I can a representative case. Again, the generalizability bug keeps biting, but I must learn not to scratch that itch (for now).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to get my head around &#8220;case study research&#8221;. While I have read countless case studies, I tend not to put them in the category of research. Too often they read like &#8220;what I did last summer&#8221; reports where (again) I question the value to anyone but the souls associated directly with the situation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-eci-890"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}