Discusses the use of case methods in a teacher development setting where participants included teachers implementing an innovative four-year secondary mathematics curriculum. Suggests that the cases had played a surprisingly powerful role in helping the teachers acknowledge their classroom concerns and begin to address these concerns. (Contains 40…

Presents a case study for use in management communication classes that focuses on employee feedback and performance appraisals in a company that merged with a smaller company one year ago. (SR)

Responds to a case study for management communication classes (presented in this same issue) that focuses on issues of performance appraisals and employee feedback after a merger. Notes cultural differences between the companies; examines the supervisor's differential evaluations of his employees and his communicative dynamics; examines the…

Presents a case study for use in business communication classes to help students understand and learn both the context and the strategies for communication with business and management. Deals with a situation in which diverse internal groups in a company neither understand nor effectively interact with each other. Includes two assignments. (SR)

Summarizes the process of a reform effort in biology instruction. Describes the use of a case study about cholera epidemics and explains how it enables critical objectives in the science curriculum to be addressed. (DDR)

Uses the cross-cultural concepts of context and time to examine the rhetoric of German university students in an English business writing course. Provides a fresh perspective for American teachers in increasingly multinational, multicultural classrooms. Suggests how Aristotle's concepts of ethos, logos, and pathos together with the case method and…

Focuses on the case write-up insofar as it extends the concept of genre systems. Looks at the place of the case write-up in a privileged, institutionalized genre system, that of the Harvard case method, and then considers the values that the genre system fosters in its primary practitioners, management students. (SG)

Scores of 220 students on assessment instruments used for admission to a business management department (multiple-choice test, case analysis, executive summary, business presentation) were analyzed. Multiple choice was not a reliable measure of knowledge. The other three methods reliably measured knowledge, skills, and abilities for management…

Reports findings from a five-day summer institute conducted with 27 practicing primary grade teachers that was part of a year-long professional development project that supported teachers' thinking about children's arithmetical understanding. Indicates that teachers developed two hypotheses about children's thinking and what it means for children…

Nursing students (n=43) who used clinical case studies via computer-assisted instruction (CAI) were compared with 37 who used the written nursing process (WNP). California Critical Thinking Skills Test results did not show significant increases in critical thinking. The WNP method was more time consuming; the CAI group was more satisfied. Use of…

Discusses the process of selecting classroom cases in a 300-level business communication course. Outlines five specific criteria for a case to be workable. Describes that cases should be applicable to all students in the class, be sufficiently complex situations, accommodate multiple solutions, be manageable within portions of one or more class…

Argues the global challenges of an ever-shrinking world are the result of the complicated intertwined practices of both corporations and nation-states. Suggests advanced undergraduate seminars in argumentation use case studies to explore the intersections among legal, business and other social forums. (NH)

An online survey received 34 responses from allied health students using Web-based case studies in cardiopulmonary sciences. Internet cases helped with practical application of theory. They fostered independent over collaborative work. Students preferred Internet cases to lectures. Although the Internet increased access to information, there were…

Focuses on the rationale behind case-based instruction by describing the design and development of a prototype and addressing the justification of underlying design decisions. Outlines the prototype and presents formative evaluation results. (DDR)

This paper presents a bidding strategy that may be incorporated into case-intensive courses. The purpose of the bidding process is to equitably distribute credit when students are assigned cases of differing degrees of difficulty. The paper also collects data to help answer a basic research question regarding this device: Is there evidence of…