This paper seeks to confirm whether students using the Global Market Potential System Online (GMPSO) web based software, (http://globalmarketpotential.com), for their class project enhanced their knowledge and understanding of international business. The challenge most business instructors and practitioners face is to determine how to bring the…

This paper describes a narrative-based interactive learning environment which aims to elucidate reasoning using interactive scenarios that may be used in training novices in decision-making. Its design is based on an approach to generating narrative from knowledge that has been modelled in specific decision/reasoning domains. The approach uses a…

In this course, students encounter reactions and mechanisms in the context of landmark syntheses of biologically important molecules. Students closely examine pairs of syntheses of related or identical molecules to facilitate their appreciation for synthetic strategy. They then write short, creative papers that critically compare the two synthetic…

Within the past few years, there have been numerous studies that suggest that preservice teachers need and want opportunities to observe, visit, interact, and collaboratively reflect with teachers who are attempting to implement reform-based teaching strategies. Unfortunately, for many schools of education, it is logistically difficult to locate a…

Drag racing is just one of the exciting sporting activities that students enrolled in the Parkland College's Engineering Science and Technologies program get an opportunity in which to participate. The college, located in Champaign, Illinois, has provided affordable career-tech and academic education to area residents since 1966. This article…

Accounting educators struggle with ways to incorporate the development of critical thinking and communication skills into the curriculum. Case analysis is one tool for developing these skills. We examine whether students' case analysis scores improve as a result of participation in peer grading and peer review. We find that students improve their…

From the standpoint of a journal editor and researcher, this commentary critically reflects on some of the primary notions addressed in the 4 featured articles of the special section, discussing areas of agreement and divergence. As a way of further exploring these ethical and professional concerns, the contentious issue of using school children…

Recent research has demonstrated that knowledge about specific instances may be of more relevance to reasoning than has previously been assumed. Students can rely on principles they have learned, or they can recall something similar previously experienced, and base the new prediction on it in an instance-based approach. Instance-based (or…

The author describes the use of the case study method as a teaching tool for preservice teacher education. Potential problems with the use of this method are discussed, as well as the benefits it can produce. (CH)

This study explored the usefulness of case-based teaching, examining college students' perceptions of the Person Focused Learning (PFL) process and investigating what types of knowledge, skills, and dispositions were impacted by the PFL process. The study hypothesized that there would be a difference in students' attitudes toward people with…

In business classes, 75 graduate students used traditional case studies and 75 used case studies with a grounded learning approach. The latter resulted in higher levels of involvement, motivation, and learning; higher grades; and more professional written products. (SK)

Asserts that case studies are an important component of international business courses, and that computer-mediated communication (e-mail, chat rooms, threaded computer conferences, etc.) offers new possibilities to overcome temporal and spatial constraints on discussion. Presents a framework to classify the different strategies for improving case…

Case-based in-basket exercises require students to master content as well as communicate knowledge to professional audiences. The combination of specialized content knowledge and analysis of communication contexts helps develop expertise. (Contains 23 references and an in-basket example.) (SK)

Describes the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning's publishing of "Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" (Hutchings, 2000), a set of case studies illustrating what is entailed in the scholarship of teaching and learning in different fields and instructional contexts. (SG)

Discusses reasons for the differing use of case methodology in teaching business courses in Central and Eastern Europe and the United States. Presents a framework for developing and delivering case-based business courses with the objective of maximizing teaching effectiveness. (EV)