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Teaching Forward

The Science Teacher—February 2011

Educators and educational researchers alike are discovering that inductive methods—in which learners start with specific observations, problems, or cases and infer general laws from these instances—are more effective when higher-order thinking is the primary goal (Yadav et al. 2007). For decades, the case-study method has been widely used in law and business schools, but is less common in secondary education. In this article, the author provides three examples of case-based teaching that can be effectively used in high school biology, environmental science, or astronomy classrooms.
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