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The Case Study: What Makes a Good Case? Some Basic Rules of Good Storytelling Help Teachers Generate Student Excitement in the Classroom

Journal of College Science Teaching—December 1997/January 1998

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.
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