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Start with a story; the case study method of teaching college science.(Brief Article)(Book...

9781933531069

Start with a story; the case study method of teaching college science.

Ed. by Clyde Freeman Herreid.

NSTA Press

2007

466 pages

$34.95

Paperback

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Sixty-three essays published as columns in the National Science Teacher's Association publication Journal of College Science Teaching are presented here, explicating how to use case studies to teach science at the undergraduate level. Compiled by Herreid (U. of Buffalo and National Center for Case Study Teaching in Sc

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