Doctoral Persistence: Case Study Essay

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The topic for this study will be Doctoral Persistence. Doctoral persistence is “the continuance of a student’s progress toward the completion of a doctoral degree” (Bair, 1999, p. 8). Doctoral Persistence will be explored by utilizing the case study research design. In applying case study research design and answering the following questions. First providing a description of the case study research design and when it is appropriate to incorporate into research. It will describe the challenges that case study research can reflect experience. It will illustrate a problem statement pertaining to our theme of doctoral persistence of business students. It will also present two qualitative research questions that reflect case study design. Finally it shall formulate a purpose statement to address the research question that aligns with a case study research design. …show more content…

According to Yin, R. K. (2014) case study design should be used when a single event, group, person, or community is the subject. As the case study is conducted the researcher will start to gather data through observations or interviews. Case studies were created in the medical field for aiding in the scientific theory and applying them into the real world solutions. Case study method is preferred by psychologists, anthropologists and social scientists. Often looking at patient’s history and personal systomes. The research will observe a problem or topic and record their observations. According to Shuttleworth (2008) Case study are also very valuable when researchers want to look at particular problems and dive into the situations. This also can aid in surveys which could take an amount of data and help narrow it down to a common

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