Keep revisiting the questions that drive this part of the study:
- Why was a particular evaluation approach chosen and how successful was it?
- (ALT) why did you choose not to evaluate?
- How can we overcome barriers to successful evaluation praxis?
- How does perception influence evaluative practice?
These are really the Level 2 questions of the case study (as opposed to the Level 1 questions which are those asked in the interviews). The verbal line of enquiry (level 1) is different from the mental line of enquiry (level 2). (Yin, 2009, p 87).
Level 3 questions are those asked about the pattern of findings across multiple cases. In my study, we want to find out whether there were similar issues encountered with the evaluation and how such issues were dealt with.
Level 4 questions - about the entire study. How do findings relate to other literature or to say phase 1 of my study.
Case study evidence can (and should) come from multiple sources. These may include documents, interviews, participant observation, direct observation, physical artifacts and archival records. In this study the first four types were used.
