Learning case study
From GSLISWiki
A case study of learning is an in-depth look at teaching and how learners respond. It typically includes a description of the activities that provide the context for learning. A case study report may be organized in whatever way seems most appropriate to the study, but often includes the following elements:
- Your own inquiry: What you did to learn more about the content or processes that learners were investigating, and what you learned about these.
- Curricular goals: How you or others wanted learners to develop as a consequence of their engagement with some activities, for example,
- to be able to use a communication technology effectively
- to learn how the first parliamentary system arose
- to learn how the English language evolved
- to learn about the adaptation of animals to their environments,
- to learn that each person has a unique set of fingerprints and that this uniqueness makes it possible to find missing people or track down criminals,
- to be able to articulate their theories about why some things float and others sink, and to propose ways to test those theories,
- to learn how to discuss their ideas with others.
- Your plan: A discussion of the strategies and materials designed to help learners.
- The story: One or more incidents that gave insights into what learners were thinking, feeling, or able to do. Describe these incidents using dialogue, including intonation and descriptions of facial expressions, or what they were actually doing at the time, as well as you can remember it. A reader should be able to create a mental image of the events from the description that you write.
- Interpretation: Insights from this experience that might help you or others understand why learners acted as they did, including what they said and produced.
- What might be done differently?: How you felt about the unit of activities and the extent to which the goals were achieved. How did you determine this? What might you do to improve the unit?
See other Research Methods.
