Un estudio de un caso es un estudio en profundidad de un problema, situación, persona o grupo de personas concreto. Un estudio de un caso refleja una situación real o hipotética (pero que podría ser real) y con una complejidad adecuada.
Un buen estudio de caso debe poseer las siguientes características:
- It is taken from real life (true identities may be concealed).
- It consists of many parts and each part usually ends with problems and points for discussion. There may not be a clear cut off point to the situation.
- It includes sufficient information for the reader to treat problems and issues.
- It is believable for the reader (the case contains the setting, personalities, sequence of events, problems and conflicts).
Kardos, G. & Smith, C.O. (1979) On Writing Engineering Cases. Proceedings of ASEE National Conference on Engineering Case Studies.
Estudio de un caso
Writing a case study
What is a Case Study?
Writing case studies in information systems research
Ejemplos de estudios de un caso
Case study: Using Smart Cards with PKI to implement data access control for health information systems
Cita: J. Watts, Huiming Yu, Xiaohong Yuan. Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2010 (SoutheastCon), pp. 163,167, 18-21 March 2010.
Mapping study completeness and reliability - a case study
Cita: B. Kitchenham, P. Brereton, D. Budgen. 16th International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2012), pp. 126,135, 14-15 May 2012.
Case studies in computing education: Presentation, evaluation and assessment of four case study-based course design and delivery models
Cita: I. Baumgartner, V. Shankararaman. 2014 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), pp. 1,8, 22-25 Oct. 2014.