Case studies have become a popular vehicle for pre-service teachers to be introduced to the challenges of classroom teaching and participate in hypothetical classroom decision-making. Because of the similarity of case study instruction to those classroom structures proven to influence a student's adoption of mastery-approach goals, we expected…

This paper describes one classroom environment and an assessment technique, goal-attainment-scaling, useful for settings where individual differences in learning goals and variation in progress toward such goals are accepted and encouraged. (Author/JR)