Design features Site selection depends on program diversity, cannot be used with highly diverse programs; best, worst, representative, typical, or cluster bases appropriate; must keep number of cases manageable or risk becoming minisurvey, can use survey before or after to check generalizability or mix survey with concurrent case studies selected for special purposes; data rely on observation and structured materials, often combine qualitative and quantitative data; analysis uses varying degrees of formalization around emergent or predetermined themes; reports are usually thematic and describe site differences and explain these; variation in degree of integration of data across sites and of findings from different methods
Site selection is completely arbitrary, and no information is necessary before the process is completed.
mnli hypothesis: Site selection is completely arbitrary, and no information is necessary before the process is completed. premise: Design features Site selection depends on program diversity, cannot be used with highly diverse programs; best, worst, representative, typical, or cluster bases appropriate; must keep number of cases manageable or risk becoming minisurvey, can use survey before or after to check generalizability or mix survey with concurrent case studies selected for special purposes; data rely on observation and structured materials, often combine qualitative and quantitative data; analysis uses varying degrees of formalization around emergent or predetermined themes; reports are usually thematic and describe site differences and explain these; variation in degree of integration of data across sites and of findings from different methods