Start with a Story: The Case Study Method of Teaching College ScienceClyde Freeman Herreid NSTA Press, 2007 - 466 pages Kipp Herreid learned other ways to teach- much better ways. His favorite approach puts science in vivid context through case studies, which he calls "stories with an educational message." This compilation of 40-plus essays examines every aspect of the case study method.--[back cover]. |
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... figure is 5 % . Only 1.5 % become graduate students and 0.24 % become PhDs . The decline is even worse for women who make up over 50 % of the popula- tion and 45 % of the American workforce but are only 13 % of the scientists and ...
... figure is 5 % . Only 1.5 % become graduate students and 0.24 % become PhDs . The decline is even worse for women who make up over 50 % of the popula- tion and 45 % of the American workforce but are only 13 % of the scientists and ...
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... figures in perspective , here is a series of recently collected statistics , again focusing upon the factual content of scientific literacy . A poll in 1994 by the American Mu- seum of Natural History found that 46 % of Americans don't ...
... figures in perspective , here is a series of recently collected statistics , again focusing upon the factual content of scientific literacy . A poll in 1994 by the American Mu- seum of Natural History found that 46 % of Americans don't ...
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... figures become major players on the stage of discovery and are more readily remembered for their contributions . Teach in Context Case study teaching in science has had few advocates . In the 1940s , the president of Har- vard ...
... figures become major players on the stage of discovery and are more readily remembered for their contributions . Teach in Context Case study teaching in science has had few advocates . In the 1940s , the president of Har- vard ...
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... figure out what you need to know to solve it , and if it is a dilemma case , decide what the hero should do . So , even though I had been using case stud- ies for years and extolling their virtues , it had never struck me until this ...
... figure out what you need to know to solve it , and if it is a dilemma case , decide what the hero should do . So , even though I had been using case stud- ies for years and extolling their virtues , it had never struck me until this ...
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... figure out how to use the “ book learning . ” But perhaps not . It will never dawn on most of us that there must be a better way . What a pity . tour guide who told us about her country through a START WITH A STORY THE CASE STUDY METHOD ...
... figure out how to use the “ book learning . ” But perhaps not . It will never dawn on most of us that there must be a better way . What a pity . tour guide who told us about her country through a START WITH A STORY THE CASE STUDY METHOD ...
Contents
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An Overview | 125 |
VIIProblemBased Learning | 151 |
VIIIInterrupted Case Method | 167 |
XIIIHybrid Case Methods | 251 |
XIVDirected Case Method | 299 |
XVHow Not to Teach With Case Studies | 331 |
XVIHow to Write Case Studies | 349 |
XVIIHow to Write Case Study Teaching Notes | 385 |
XVIIIHow to Grade Students Using CaseBased Teaching | 393 |
XIXAssessment and Evaluation of the Case Study Process | 401 |
XXFuture of Case Teaching | 421 |
IXIntimate Debate Method | 179 |
XTeamBased Learning | 187 |
XILarge Class Methods | 219 |
XIIIndividual Case Study Methods | 237 |
Appendix IAbout the Authors | 443 |
Appendix IIOriginal Chapter References | 445 |
Index | 449 |
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Page 413 - I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind...
Page 55 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 156 - When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
Page 29 - Hale brought to the attention of the meeting the question of a popular journal to be published jointly by the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and stated that the matter would be brought up later for further consideration.
Page 139 - Anna Karenina: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Page 140 - Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Page 374 - The world of reality has its limits ; the world of imagination is boundless. — Not being able to enlarge the one, let us contract the other ; for it is from their difference that all the evils arise which render ne unhappy.
Page 7 - If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, — One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country
Page 429 - My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there