Answer keys provide acceptable answers to the questions posed in a case. Since these questions are intended to be answered by students and are often graded, keys are password-protected and access limited to registered instructors affiliated with an educational institution.

A significant body of literature is beginning to accumulate on the assessment of case teaching and active learning strategies, though more studies are needed.

Here we have organized resources and references for assessing case-based teaching and learning.

There are many different types of cases and many different ways to teach them. We have developed a classification scheme of case types and teaching methods.

Copyright for the case studies on our website is held by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS). Images on our site that are not owned by NCCSTS are either licensed, used with direct permission from their sources, believed to be in the public domain, or incorporated into our material according to ニ_fair useニ_ guidelines. Proprietary third-party images that appear according to ニ_editorial usageニ_ generally have their sources acknowledged in a credit statement at the bottom of the page on which they appear. Licensed images that have been used strictly for design purposes may be acknowledged, depending on licensing requirements. If you wish to use such an image in addition to our textual content in a manner that goes beyond ニ_fair use,ニ_ please visit the original source and contact the owner directly.

Please fill out the form below and your entry will be added to the Case Study Teachers Directory within a few days.

If youĽË_ve lost or forgotten your answer key password, we will send it to the E-mail address you provided us when you registered.

We encourage you to become a member of our mailing list, SCIENECASE-LIST, which we use as a way of announcing newly published cases on our web site; upcoming workshops (ours and others); and new publications related to the case method. Our list averages one to two messages every four to five weeks.

The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science holds the copyright for all of the cases in its collection. As the copyright holder, we encourage educational, not-for-profit use of our cases by individual instructors. We also will review proposed for-profit uses of our cases. We have rules governing the use of our answer keys and teaching notes.

The publications listed below have been produced by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science.

Cases in the database can now be retrieved by subject heading, intended audience, type of case/case method, topical area, and keyword. In keeping with the database structure, the central point of access is now the case record. From the case record, you can do a number of things, many of which involve accessing the case components, such as the case itself, its teaching notes, the answer key (if there is one), and any supplemental materials. You can also submit and read comments on the cases.

One of our major areas of focus is training science faculty in the case method of teaching. We do this through a number of activities, including an annual summer workshop and fall conference.