The Case Study: Assessment of Case Study Teaching -- Where Do We Go From Here? Part II | NSTA

The Case Study: Assessment of Case Study Teaching -- Where Do We Go From Here? Part II

Journal of College Science Teaching -- May/June 2006

It is natural for faculty to select paradigms with which they have familiarity, and in the sciences, measurement is a careful, precise aspect of the research method. In science there has been a bias towards counting. However, measurement is not as precise in educational research as in the sciences, and a strict focus on quantitative measurements may limit methodology as well as research questions.

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