El desarrollo de la investigación evaluativa en la actualidad tiende a reconocer, teóricamente, la necesidad de una síntesis entre la perspectiva cuantitativa y la cualitativa. En este artículo se abandona la posición cuantitativa fuerte, mantenida por este autor en trabajos anteriores, para presentar ahora la perspectiva cualitativa como complemento necesario de la cuantitativa. Se analiza la metodología cualitativa del estudio de casos dentro del ámbito de la ciencia social y los posibles problemas que se plantean, así como, sus ventajas. También se observan una serie de sugerencias con el fin de mejorar el estudio de casos, en su validez y en su interpretación.
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