Chapter 8: Case Study Approaches

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following is NOT a key aspect of the classic experiment incorporation of manipulative control?

A. Individuals are randomly assigned to treatment and control groups.

B. The two groups are treated the same in all respects except for the presence or absence of the independent variable.

C. the elimination of rival plausible explanation through analytical control

D. Use appropriate statistical tests to see whether any differences we observe are greater than we would expect based on chance variation alone.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Analytic Control in the Case Study Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the three different types of case studies differentiated by Stake?

A. intrinsic case study

B. instrumental case study

C. collective case study

D. critical case study

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is a Case?

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. A ______ is any “bounded system,” that is, a focus of study bounded in space and time.

A. case

B. participant

C. subject

D. study focus

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is a Case?

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. A ______ can be a person, an organization, an event, a place, a file, a country, or just about any other entity we can clearly demarcate as a focus of study.

A. case

B. participant

C. subject

D. study focus

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is a Case?

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Rochelle is evaluating infant mortality rates in the state of Texas. In this study what is the case?

A. mortality

B. Texas

C. cities in Texas

D. infants

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: What Is a Case?

Difficulty Level: Hard

6. A case study in which the entire focus is on the one case and nothing else is referred to as a(n) ______.

A. intrinsic case study

B. instrumental case study

C. collective case study

D. critical case study

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is a Case?

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Elisa is a coroner who must ascertain the cause of death for each deceased individual she assesses. What type of case study is this?

A. intrinsic case study

B. instrumental case study

C. collective case study

D. critical case study

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: What Is a Case?

Difficulty Level: Hard

8. According to Stake, the ______ is of greater interest to academe than other types of case studies.

A. intrinsic case study

B. instrumental case study

C. collective case study

D. critical case study

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is a Case?

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Alex is interested in childhood obesity, he sets up a study in an elementary school to collect data, however, the children and the school are not the focus. What type of case study is this?

A. intrinsic case study

B. instrumental case study

C. collective case study

D. critical case study

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is a Case?

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. A ______ involves a chosen set of cases where each case is treated as its own individual entity, to be compared or contrasted with one another.

A. intrinsic case study

B. instrumental case study

C. collective case study

D. critical case study

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is a Case?

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. A series of burglaries have occurred in your neighborhood. The detectives are evaluating each burglary as a separate case, but then comparing the evidence of these separate cases. What type of case study is this?

A. intrinsic case study

B. instrumental case study

C. collective case study

D. critical case study

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: What Is a Case?

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. What is another name for collective case study?

A. extended intrinsic case study

B. extended Instrumental case study

C. combination case study

D. multiple case study

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is a Case?

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Which of the following is NOT an appropriate reason for conducting a case study according to Yin.

A. The focus of your study is at least partly contemporary.

B. You have intact groups as participants.

C. You are asking a “how” or “why” question regarding some phenomenon of interest.

D. You have little or no control over what happens in the situation.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: When Is a Case Study Appropriate?

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Which photographer wrote “Do Photographs Tell the Truth?”

A. Donald T. Campbell

B. John Stuart Mill

C. Howard Becker

D. Howard Palys

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Do Photographs Tell the Truth?

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Which of the following is NOT a reason why a photograph might be false?

A. The photographer was more interested in aesthetic concerns.

B. The photo was faked.

C. Censorship was involved.

D. The model was more interested in aesthetic concerns.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Do Photographs Tell the Truth?

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. ______ is a process of theory formulation characteristic of inductive approaches.

A. Manipulative induction

B. Formulative induction

C. Analytical induction

D. Analytical deduction

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Analytic Induction

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. ______ is a type of cognitive bias where people only pay attention to information that confirms their previously existing beliefs or biases instead of being open to negative evidence that would cause them to reconsider those beliefs.

A. negative evidence bias

B. negative belief bias

C. disproval bias

D. confirmation bias

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Analytic Induction

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. ______ consists of cases or evidence that is contradictory to a working hypothesis or your current understanding.

A. Negative evidence

B. Negative belief

C. Disproval bias

D. Confirmation bias

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Analytic Induction

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. An important quality of any theory is that there must be potential evidence that the theory is incorrect, thus the theory must be ______.

A. indisputable

B. hypothetical

C. disprovable

D. conformational

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Analytic Induction

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Which popular media character does Paly’s use to demonstrate an intrinsic case study?

A. Sherlock Holmes

B. Dr. Who

C. Harry Potter

D. Wolverine

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: An Intrinsic Case Study: Sherlock Holmes and “The Adventure of Silver Blaze”

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Which former U.S. president’s decision-making process was used to discuss case studies in your text?

A. Richard Nixon

B. John F. Kennedy

C. Barack Obama

D. Donald Trump

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: How Were Those Decisions Made?

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. ______ stands for an excessive form of concurrence-seeking among members of high prestige, tightly knit policy-making groups.

A. Group suppression

B. Group cohesiveness

C. Groupthink

D. Concurrence seeking

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: How Were Those Decisions Made?

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Alia is in a Home Owner’s Association (HOA) meeting for her neighborhood. The HOA president and the other members of the HOA thinks the speed limit should be raised, however, Alia thinks that the speed limit is already too high and should be lowered, but suppresses this doubt because of ______.

A. group suppression

B. group cohesiveness

C. groupthink

D. concurrence seeking

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: How Were Those Decisions Made?

Difficulty Level: Hard

24. Which famous equation is a subject of David Bodanis book which is a case study on the sociology of knowledge?

A. E = mc²

B. a + b = c

C. groupthink

D. concurrence seeking

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Where Did That Equation Come From?

Difficulty Level: Hard

25. Which scholar dismissed case studies as “useless" and “prescientific” early in their career prior to understanding their research value?

A. Donald T. Campbell

B. John Stuart Mill

C. Howard Becker

D. Howard Palys

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: How Does a Computerized Information System Affect Interaction?

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. A key aspect of the classic experiment is the manipulative control that it incorporates in order to achieve control over a number of different rival plausible explanations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Analytic Control in the Case Study Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Researchers are encouraged to bring a rigid methodological attitude in respect to case studies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Case Study Methods

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. An important quality of any theory is that it must be able to be disproved.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Analytic Induction

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. There is no way to evaluate photographs as case studies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Do Photographs Tell the Truth?

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Sherlock Holmes is a methodologist according to your text.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Dénouement

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. On some level every photograph is true and every photograph is false.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Do Photographs Tell the Truth?

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Case study analysis are not feasible in the real world.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Case Study Analysis in the Real world

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Social and health science case studies only occur on a small scale.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Where Did That Equation Come From?

Difficulty Level: Easy

Short Answer

1. Identify the key differences between intrinsic case studies, instrumental case studies, and collective case studies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Is a Case?

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Summarize and discuss how to know when a case study is appropriate.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: When Is a Case Study Appropriate?

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Compare and contrast the difference between threats to validity of an image and parallel threats in interactive research.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Do Photographs Tell the Truth?

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Summarize the idea of analytic induction and negative evidence and discuss the relevance of both to case studies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Do Photographs Tell the Truth?

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Compare and contrast the decision-making process in the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis and discuss the reason these examples are good case studies to review?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: How Were Those Decisions Made?

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Consider how different professions engage in case study analysis. Discuss two different professions that utilize case studies and discuss the role of case studies in their work, the type of case studies relevant to the work they do, and how the case studies inform the professions.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Case Study Analysis in the Real world

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. The local government would like to reduce recidivism rates for formerly incarcerated people in the state. There are three different local organizations working with formally incarcerated individuals and the government officials have hired you to evaluate each case and compare their effectiveness to see which organization should be chosen to assist in program implementation. Discuss the following:

1. type of case study you should utilize
2. independent variable
3. dependent variable
4. role of induction and deduction
5. how to make the decision
6. potential for issues (e.g., internal validity, groupthink)

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Case Study Analysis in the Real world

Difficulty Level: Hard