Writing 5: Sumary of journal 1

In research there are two terms, qualitative research and quantitative research. In qualitative research there is a term named case study, but what is case study itself ?. Case studies are one of the first types of research to be used in the field of qualitative methodology. Case studies have been used in social science and can be found in practice-oriented fields such as in education, management, public administration, also social work. According to Mesec a case study is a description and analysis of an individual matter of case with the purpose to identify variable with the purpose to identify variables, structures, forms and orders of interaction between the participants in the situations or in order to assess the performance of work or progress in development.

Case study has advantages such as the potential to achieve conceeptual validity is high because it allows for conseptual refinements with a higher validity level, suitable for serving the heuristic purpose of inductively identifying additional variables and new hypotheses, examining the operation of casual mechanism of individual cases in detail, it is able to accomomdate complex casual relations like equifinality, complex interaction effects, and path depedency. Case study in the use, has additional advantages. First, case study is important to develop different views of reality. Second, case study contributes to professional development of a researcher, because case study provides concrete, context-dependent experience that may increase the research skills.
In my opinion, case study is important. by using case study we can do a research deeper and also we can get the deeper information. 

 

Reference :

Starman, A.B. (2013). The Case Study As a Type of Qualitative Research. Journal of contemporary educational studies, 1, 28-43.