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What Is a Case?
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Herreid, Clyde Freeman – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1997
Cases are stories that are meant to educate. Teachers can deliver cases by lecture, through Socratic questioning, through discussion leading, and in small group learning. Some cases are fact driven and deductive, whereas others are context driven. Science appears to demand closed-ended cases with correct answers; however, in frontier science,…
Descriptors: Business Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Decision Making Skills, Discussion (Teaching Technique)