Robert K Yin
Biographic Data
| ID | 292550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert K Yin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert K |
| FAMILY NAME | Yin |
| SIGNATURE | YIN R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cosmos Corporation (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Case Studies
Validity and generalization in future case study evaluations
Validity and generalization continue to be challenging aspects in designing and conducting case study evaluations, especially when the number of cases being studied is highly limited (even limited to a single case). To address the challenge, this article highlights current knowledge regarding the use of: (1) rival explanations, triangulation, and logic models in strengthening validity, and (2) analytic generalization and the role of theory in see…
Case Study Methods
Case study methods.
Discovering “What's Innovative”: The Challenge of Evaluating Education Research and Development Efforts
The Math and Science Partnership Program Evaluation: Overview of the First Two Years
This study describes the Math and Science Partnership Program Evaluation (MSP-PE) during the project's first two years and provides the evaluation framework being used to assess the National Science Foundation's MSP Program. The study conveys the MSP-PE's ongoing design and implementation. To show how they reflect the nature of the MSP Program, the study addresses the following questions: (a) What are the MSP Program's main themes? (b) What kinds…
Introduction to the MSP-PE Special Issue on Math and Science Partnership Program: A First Comprehensive Evaluation
The United States faces significant challenges in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (often collectively referred to as STEM). Numerous reports from governmental, scientific, and civic communities have raised concerns over the quality of STEM education at all levels of the educational system, the shortage in the STEM labor force, and the decreasing competitiveness of student performance in STEM fields at the internati…
Strengthening Structured Abstracts for Education Research: The Need for Claim-Based Structured Abstracts
Recent policy recommendations involving the putative primacy of randomized clinical trials in educational settings have reignited research paradigm debates. The authors of this article use the vehicle of strengthening structured journal abstracts to point out the argumentative character of all education research claims. They offer suggestions to authors to help inform academic and policy-oriented consumers of research articles about the various l…
Aggregating Student Achievement Trends Across States With Different Tests: Using Standardized Slopes as Effect Sizes
The study of federal education initiatives that takes place over multiple years in multiple settings often calls for aggregating and comparing data-in particular, student achievement data-across a broad set of schools, districts, and states. The need to track the trends over time is complicated by the fact that the data from the different schools, districts, and states also may have been based on different achievement tests. This article suggests…
Cost-Benefit Estimates in Prevention Research
Using outcome data to evaluate community drug prevention initiatives: Pushing the State-Of-The-Art
Case Studies: A Continuing Debate
Case Studies: A Continuing Debate Get access Joe R. Feagin, Anthony M. Orum, and Gidion Sjoberg, eds. A Case for the Case Study. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. 278 pp., $37.50 cloth, $12.95 paper. Robert K. Yin Robert K. Yin COSMOS Corporation, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 1992, Pages 3…
The Case Study Method as a Tool for Doing Evaluation
Case Studies and Organizational Innovation: Strengthening the Connection
This article identifies the methodological characteristics of high-qualuy case studies, when case studies are used as a research tool. The findings are based on an analysis of 53 case studies of organizational innovation, which identified the characteristics leading to high global ratings of the cases. The findings suggest that investigators doing case study research in the future should delineate five components of their studies: problem definit…
Conserving America’s Neighborhoods
Innovation and the Public Policy Predicaments: Diffusion, Confusion, Infusion
Studying Phenomenon and Context Across Sites
Knowledge Utilization as a Networking Process
Life Histories of Innovations: How New Practices Become Routinized
A fire department in a southern city initiated a new paramedic service in 1973. Four years later, the service was so pervasive that the department avoided citywide budget cuts, and the was considered a routine part of the department's operations. Innovations like this one continually emerge in urban bureaucracies. Little is known, however, about how such practices become routinizedi.e., how they become part of standard practice. Instead, most pre…
The Case Study as a Serious Research Strategy
Decentralization of Government Agencies: What Does It Accomplish
Decentralization of government has been one way of increasing government responsiveness. This is true for municipal systems where a city-wide government may be decentralized to subdistrict units as well as the federal system, where responsibilities may be delegated to state or local units. This paper reviews advantages and disadvantages of decentralized units
Production efficiency versus bureaucratic self-interest: Two innovative processes
Mental Health on the Campus: A Field Study
Administrative decentralization of municipal services: Assessing the New York City experience
Decentralization and alienation
Validity and generalization in future case study evaluations
Validity and generalization continue to be challenging aspects in designing and conducting case study evaluations, especially when the number of cases being studied is highly limited (even limited to a single case). To address the challenge, this article highlights current knowledge regarding the use of: (1) rival explanations, triangulation, and logic models in strengthening validity, and (2) analytic generalization and the role of theory in see…
The Case Study as a Serious Research Strategy
The Case Study Method as a Tool for Doing Evaluation
Knowledge Utilization as a Networking Process
Strengthening Structured Abstracts for Education Research: The Need for Claim-Based Structured Abstracts
Recent policy recommendations involving the putative primacy of randomized clinical trials in educational settings have reignited research paradigm debates. The authors of this article use the vehicle of strengthening structured journal abstracts to point out the argumentative character of all education research claims. They offer suggestions to authors to help inform academic and policy-oriented consumers of research articles about the various l…
Studying Phenomenon and Context Across Sites
Production efficiency versus bureaucratic self-interest: Two innovative processes
Administrative decentralization of municipal services: Assessing the New York City experience
Decentralization and alienation
Discovering “What's Innovative”: The Challenge of Evaluating Education Research and Development Efforts
Aggregating Student Achievement Trends Across States With Different Tests: Using Standardized Slopes as Effect Sizes
The study of federal education initiatives that takes place over multiple years in multiple settings often calls for aggregating and comparing data-in particular, student achievement data-across a broad set of schools, districts, and states. The need to track the trends over time is complicated by the fact that the data from the different schools, districts, and states also may have been based on different achievement tests. This article suggests…
Case Studies and Organizational Innovation: Strengthening the Connection
This article identifies the methodological characteristics of high-qualuy case studies, when case studies are used as a research tool. The findings are based on an analysis of 53 case studies of organizational innovation, which identified the characteristics leading to high global ratings of the cases. The findings suggest that investigators doing case study research in the future should delineate five components of their studies: problem definit…
Decentralization of Government Agencies: What Does It Accomplish
Decentralization of government has been one way of increasing government responsiveness. This is true for municipal systems where a city-wide government may be decentralized to subdistrict units as well as the federal system, where responsibilities may be delegated to state or local units. This paper reviews advantages and disadvantages of decentralized units
Transfer of Social Influence Effects on Psychophysical Judgments
Changes in psychophysical judgments of roughness due to social influence with other subjects
Looking at upside-down faces.
Compared memory for faces with memory for other classes of familar and complex objects which, like faces, are also customarily seen only in 1 orientation (mono-oriented). Performance of 4 students was tested when the inspection and test series were presented in the same orientation, either both upri
Decentralization and alienation
Administrative decentralization of municipal services: Assessing the New York City experience
Mental Health on the Campus: A Field Study
Production efficiency versus bureaucratic self-interest: Two innovative processes
Decentralization of Government Agencies: What Does It Accomplish
Decentralization of government has been one way of increasing government responsiveness. This is true for municipal systems where a city-wide government may be decentralized to subdistrict units as well as the federal system, where responsibilities may be delegated to state or local units. This paper reviews advantages and disadvantages of decentralized units
Knowledge Utilization as a Networking Process
Life Histories of Innovations: How New Practices Become Routinized
A fire department in a southern city initiated a new paramedic service in 1973. Four years later, the service was so pervasive that the department avoided citywide budget cuts, and the was considered a routine part of the department's operations. Innovations like this one continually emerge in urban bureaucracies. Little is known, however, about how such practices become routinizedi.e., how they become part of standard practice. Instead, most pre…
The Case Study as a Serious Research Strategy
Conserving America’s Neighborhoods
Innovation and the Public Policy Predicaments: Diffusion, Confusion, Infusion
Studying Phenomenon and Context Across Sites
Case Studies and Organizational Innovation: Strengthening the Connection
This article identifies the methodological characteristics of high-qualuy case studies, when case studies are used as a research tool. The findings are based on an analysis of 53 case studies of organizational innovation, which identified the characteristics leading to high global ratings of the cases. The findings suggest that investigators doing case study research in the future should delineate five components of their studies: problem definit…
Case Studies: A Continuing Debate
Case Studies: A Continuing Debate Get access Joe R. Feagin, Anthony M. Orum, and Gidion Sjoberg, eds. A Case for the Case Study. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. 278 pp., $37.50 cloth, $12.95 paper. Robert K. Yin Robert K. Yin COSMOS Corporation, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 1992, Pages 3…
The Case Study Method as a Tool for Doing Evaluation
Using outcome data to evaluate community drug prevention initiatives: Pushing the State-Of-The-Art
Cost-Benefit Estimates in Prevention Research
Aggregating Student Achievement Trends Across States With Different Tests: Using Standardized Slopes as Effect Sizes
The study of federal education initiatives that takes place over multiple years in multiple settings often calls for aggregating and comparing data-in particular, student achievement data-across a broad set of schools, districts, and states. The need to track the trends over time is complicated by the fact that the data from the different schools, districts, and states also may have been based on different achievement tests. This article suggests…
Strengthening Structured Abstracts for Education Research: The Need for Claim-Based Structured Abstracts
Recent policy recommendations involving the putative primacy of randomized clinical trials in educational settings have reignited research paradigm debates. The authors of this article use the vehicle of strengthening structured journal abstracts to point out the argumentative character of all education research claims. They offer suggestions to authors to help inform academic and policy-oriented consumers of research articles about the various l…
Discovering “What's Innovative”: The Challenge of Evaluating Education Research and Development Efforts
The Math and Science Partnership Program Evaluation: Overview of the First Two Years
This study describes the Math and Science Partnership Program Evaluation (MSP-PE) during the project's first two years and provides the evaluation framework being used to assess the National Science Foundation's MSP Program. The study conveys the MSP-PE's ongoing design and implementation. To show how they reflect the nature of the MSP Program, the study addresses the following questions: (a) What are the MSP Program's main themes? (b) What kinds…
Introduction to the MSP-PE Special Issue on Math and Science Partnership Program: A First Comprehensive Evaluation
The United States faces significant challenges in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (often collectively referred to as STEM). Numerous reports from governmental, scientific, and civic communities have raised concerns over the quality of STEM education at all levels of the educational system, the shortage in the STEM labor force, and the decreasing competitiveness of student performance in STEM fields at the internati…
Case Study Methods
Case study methods.
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