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Title Start with a story : the case study method of teaching college science / edited by Clyde Freeman Herreid.

Publication Info. Arlington, Virginia. : NSTA Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 466 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note "An NSTA Press journals collection."
Summary Introduce your students to the magic of storiesdelivered through educational case studies that will help you put science into vivid context. Start With a Story offers an abundance of strategies, tips, examples, ideas, and resources to free your students (and you) from dry lecture formats. Start With a Story is a collection of more than 40 essays published primarily as columns in NSTAs member publication, Journal of College Science Teaching.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-448) and index.
Contents The case for cases: We need a new approach -- What are case studies? -- Types of case studies -- How to teach with case studies: an overview -- Whole class discussion: the classical method -- Small group methods: an overview -- Problem-based learning -- Interrupted case method -- Intimate debate method -- Team-based learning -- Large-class methods -- Individual case study methods -- Hybrid case methods -- The directed case method -- How not to teach with case studies -- How to write case studies -- How to write case study teaching notes -- How to grade students using case-based teaching -- Assessment and evaluation of the case study process -- The future of case teaching.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Science -- Study and teaching (Higher)
United States.
Science -- Study and teaching -- Case studies.
Science -- Study and teaching.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Teachers -- Training of -- Case studies.
Teachers -- Training of.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Herreid, Clyde Freeman, editor, author.
Other Form: Print version: Herreid, Clyde. Start With a Story. Arlington : National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), 2006 9781933531885 (OCoLC)476034270
ISBN 9781933531885 (electronic book)
1933531886 (electronic book)
9781933531069
1933531061
Standard No. 9781933531069