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Case Studies

APA PsycInfo (EBSCO)
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes more than 3.7 million records.
Business Source Complete
Over 197 education related case studies
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2. Type your keywords or subject
3. Look to the bottom left of screen, under "document type" select "case study"
Emerald Insight
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2. Change the search box from "articles and chapters" to case studies. The search supports Boolean searching and phrase searching (quotes around terms).
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O'Reilly Learning Platform (Safari)
Search the phrase "case study" and your topic OR "case studies" and your topic. Example: ("case study" and education)
SAGE Research Methods and Cases Online
Provides an overview of research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods) across the social and behavioral sciences. Includes SAGE book and reference material on research methods, and editorially selected material from SAGE journals. Also includes a searchable collection of case studies of real social research, commissioned and designed to help users understand abstract methodological concepts in practice. Includes Sage Research Methods Core, Cases Part I, Doing Research Online, and Data & Research Literacy.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Composed of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences, SSRN's open access eLibrary consists of an Abstract Database containing abstracts on scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers, and an Electronic Paper Collection of downloadable full-text documents. Also includes the research papers of a number of fee-based partner publications.

Research in Higher Education Journal
Publishes original, unpublished K-12 and higher education manuscripts. Appropriate topics for consideration include retention, assessment, accreditation, financial management in K-12 and higher education, new program development, teacher education, curriculum, recruitment and case studies in education.
Open Access: from 2009 to present
Journal of Case Studies in Education
Publishes original, unpublished case manuscripts relating educational situations from K - 12 and higher education. It is designed to provide the education professional a venue to share original situations with other educators.
Open Access: 2011 to 2015
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice
Promotes a better understanding of and reasoned debate on assessment, evaluation, testing, and related issues of practical importance to educators and the public.
from 1996 to present
American Educational Research Journal
Featuring articles that advance the empirical, theoretical, and methodological understanding of education and learning.
Journal of Educational Change
Publishes important ideas and evidence of educational change. It investigates how men and women, older and younger teachers, students, parents, and others experience change. It also examines the social, economic, cultural, and political forces driving educational change.
from 2000 to present

National Center on Time & Learning: Case Studies
The National Center on Time & Learning has been dedicated to expanding and improving learning time in school to improve student achievement and enable a well-rounded education
Education Resources Strategies
This set of case studies focus on professional growth & Support, promising practices at Achievement First, Agile Mind, Teach Plus, and Aspire Public Schools.
University College London: Teaching & Learning Case Studies
Explore 240 higher education cases studies spanning the topics of assessment & feedback, digital education, teaching administration, and more!

Creating a case Study

From Colorado State University. This guide examines case studies, a form of qualitative descriptive research that is used to look at individuals, a small group of participants, or a group as a whole. Researchers collect data about participants using participant and direct observations, interviews, protocols, tests, examinations of records, and collections of writing samples. Starting with a definition of the case study, the guide moves to a brief history of this research method. Using several well documented case studies, the guide then looks at applications and methods including data collection and analysis. A discussion of ways to handle validity, reliability, and generalizability follows, with special attention to case studies as they are applied to composition studies. Finally, this guide examines the strengths and weaknesses of case studies.

Bronwyn Becker, Patrick Dawson, Karen Devine, Carla Hannum, Steve Hill, Jon Leydens, Debbie Matuskevich, Carol Traver, and Mike Palmquist.. (1994 - 2012). Case Studies. Writing@CSU. Colorado State University. Available at https://writing.colostate.edu/guides/guide.cfm?guideid=60.l License.