The Case Study: What Makes a Good Case? Some Basic Rules of Good Storytelling Help Teachers Generate Student Excitement in the Classroom
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month’s issue concludes that a "good case" tells a short story with focus on a current, interest-arousing issue, creates empathy with central characters, includes quotations, is relevant to the reader, has pedagogic utility, is conflict provoking and decision forcing, and has generality.