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Quinn, Sheila O'Brien – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2005
Using the story of death row inmate Charles Singleton, who developed paranoid schizophrenia while in prison awaiting execution, this case study explores the relationship between a society's concept of mental illness and its treatment of people who are mentally ill. Students are asked to identify the model of mental illness assumed by each of the…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Medical Services, Clinical Diagnosis, Institutionalized Persons
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Smith, Aaron C. T.; Evans, Daniel M.; Westerbeek, Hans M. – Qualitative Report, 2005
Despite the number of theories explaining the nature and antecedents of change, there is no consensus on a universally applicable model. Competing theories have been tested using deductive methods focusing on hypothesis testing. This study has utilized qualitative methods for collecting data within the sport industry to provide an initial…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Interviews, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Athletics
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Normore, Anthony H. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2004
The case is intended for use as a culminating experience in courses, seminars or workshops that deal with organizational behaviour and the change process. It expounds on the key steps in any systemic change process involving one school's journey with change as it sets priorities and strategies, the problems encountered, where the support and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Organizational Culture, Educational Administration, Educational Change
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Kreth, Melinda L. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2005
This assignment reflects a client-based pedagogy, which is often used in technical and professional communication courses. Unlike service learning pedagogy, which emphasizes social activism, client-based pedagogy focuses on helping students to understand and respond effectively to "real-world" clients and their organizational contexts. Also,…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Real Estate, Audience Awareness, Content Area Writing
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Murrow, Sonia E. – Educational Studies, 2005
The pedagogy of teacher education is an understudied area; this includes the teaching of educational history to education students. In this article I highlight the teaching of educational history and current issues in teacher education through the use of what I call historical and current case studies. I examine work done in a pilot study that…
Descriptors: Educational History, History Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
Melville, Wayne; Yaxley, Bevis; Wallace, John – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2007
This article develops the notion that virtues can be utilized as a means of understanding the professional expertise that science teachers demonstrate when they deal with socioscientific issues. Socioscientific issues are those contentious issues that connect science to the society in which it operates--environmental issues being a prime example.…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Scientific Principles, Science Teachers, Science Education
Lee, Kathryn – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2007
Case study learning was integrated into a course designed to improve students' potential for academic success and increase student retention. Case studies related to self-regulation of behavior, motivation, and cognition for academic tasks were used to prompt students' critical thinking and facilitate deep learning of self-regulation topics,…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Undergraduate Students, Case Studies, Thinking Skills
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Voigt, Christian; Swatman, Paula M. C. – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2006
This article presents the first stage of a design-based research project to introduce case-based learning using existing interactive technologies in a major Australian university. The paper initially outlines the relationship between case-based learning, student interaction and the study of interactions--and includes a review of research into…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Interaction, Online Systems, Computer Mediated Communication
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Howard, W. Gary – International Journal of Instructional Media, 2006
The Socratic Method has impacted thinkers and instructors from Hegel, who moved through the negation to the negation of the negation, to Marx, who viewed history through dialectical materialism, to C.C. Langdell, who introduced case law as an innovative method to study law as a science, to present-day professors who use this method to compel…
Descriptors: Learner Controlled Instruction, Technology Integration, Information Systems, Hypermedia
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2007
For the thirtieth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Anaheim, California. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Communications
Ackerman, Richard; Maslin-Ostrowski, Patricia – 1995
This paper presents findings of a study that examined case-study teaching methods, specifically, the use of case stories in the training of educational administrators. A case story blends aspects of the case-study methods with storytelling. The case-story approach asks students to develop case stories, using their personal experience to create…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Administrator Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies
Sudzina, Mary R.; Kilbane, Clare Ryan – 1994
Case-based teaching as a strategy to effectively weave theory, practice, and problem-solving into the preservice teacher education curriculum is gaining momentum in the preparation of future teachers. Teacher educators have discovered that the case study method provides a valuable link to the "real world" of teaching as well as…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Competition, Cooperation
Barnes, Louis B.; And Others – 1994
This volume includes text, cases, and readings for a college faculty seminar to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for utilization of the case method approach to instruction. It builds on a long-term clinical research effort on the dynamics of the case method of teaching and application at Harvard Business School. In addition…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique), College Faculty, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Risko, Victoria J.; And Others – 1991
One of a series examining the instructional effectiveness of a videodisc-based case methodology, this study analyzed communication patterns among preservice teachers during implementation of a videodisc-based case methodology for preservice remedial reading instruction. Subjects, 12 students in an undergraduate remedial reading and practicum…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Discourse Analysis, Educational Innovation
Fisher, Charles F. – 1972
This study is an evaluation of the case study method as it is currently used in the Institute for College and University Administrators. The subjects of the study were 36 recently appointed academic deans and vice-presidents who participated in the American Council on Education's fall 1971 institute for academic deans held at the University of…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies
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