Guest Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 (edited) Can it be claimed that experimental trials can be used as part of the research method in an organizational case study?? The Pearson Psychology textbook says this is fine, but I've heard that in previous years marks were deducted from Paper 3 responses that referred to the experimental method as a valid component of the case study method. Edited July 1, 2016 by Guest Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siddhakshi Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 How can you use trials in the case study method? A case study usually is of an unusual case that can not be ethically replicated, so I don't think it's possible to use experimental trials at all, because you won't have enough people to take trials that fall under the same category/case. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 (edited) According to the Pearson textbook, when conducting an organizational case study of numerous employees that work for an organization, it is valid to use experimental trials. When there is an organizational problem, such as absenteeism, it is possible to conduct interviews of the employees and identify feasible organizational changes (e.g. implementation of flexitime systems). These changes can then be applied to a treatment group, but not to a control group, to see if the changes will eliminate absences. So, I'm mainly referring to case studies performed on groups of individuals, rather than one individual with a unique case. Edited July 1, 2016 by Guest Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siddhakshi Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 I highly doubt that the IB will deduct marks for this. My teacher says that as long as you can justify your claims, preferably using the text from the given study, it will be correct. Your explanation from the pearson book seems sound, therefore I think it should be fine. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 Thank you very much!! I was really worried about this. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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