Editing Case study (section)

==Teaching case studies==
Teachers may prepare a case study that will then be used in classrooms in the form of a "teaching" case study (also see [[case method]] and [[casebook method]]). For instance, as early as 1870 at [[Harvard Law School]], [[Christopher Langdell]] departed from the traditional lecture-and-notes approach to teaching [[contract law]] and began using cases pled before courts as the basis for class discussions.<ref>{{cite book | last=Kimball | first=Bruce A. | title=The Inception of Modern Professional Education: C. C. Langdell, 1826–1906| publisher=University of North Carolina Press | publication-place=Chapel Hill | date=2009 | isbn=978-0-8078-3257-8 | oclc=261174163 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2PAHnJ41c4C&pg=PA143 143-444]}}</ref> By 1920, this practice had become the dominant pedagogical approach used by [[law schools in the United States]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Jackson|first1=Giles|year=2011|title=Rethinking the case method|journal=Journal of Management Policy and Practice|volume=12|issue=5|pages=142–64}}</ref> 
[[File:Case Study Caption 1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Engineering students participate in a case study competition.]]

Outside of law, teaching case studies have become popular in many different fields and professions, ranging from business education to science education. The [[Harvard Business School]] has been among the most prominent developers and users of teaching case studies.<ref name="Garvin">{{cite journal|last1=Garvin|first1=David A.|year=2003|title=Making the Case: Professional Education for the World of Practice|url=http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=15306|journal=Harvard Magazine|volume=106|issue=1|pages=56–107}}</ref><ref name="Ellet">{{cite book|last=Ellet|first=W.|url=https://archive.org/details/casestudyhandboo00elle|title=The Case Study Handbook: How to Read, Write, and Discuss Persuasively about Cases|publisher=Harvard Business School Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1-422-10158-2|location=Boston, MA|url-access=registration}}{{page needed|date=December 2017}}</ref> Teachers develop case studies with particular learning objectives in mind. Additional relevant documentation, such as financial statements, time-lines, short biographies, and multimedia supplements (such as video-recordings of interviews) often accompany the case studies. Similarly, teaching case studies have become increasingly popular in science education, covering different biological and physical sciences. The National Center for Case Studies in Teaching Science has made a growing body of teaching case studies available for classroom use, for university as well as secondary school coursework.<ref name="Palmer2015">{{Cite book |title=Case Based Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century |last1=Palmer |first1=Grier |date=2015-01-01 |publisher=Libri |isbn=9781909818569 |location=Faringdon |pages=19–38 |last2=Iordanou |first2=Ioanna |editor-last=Courtney |editor-first=Nigel |chapter=Exploring Cases Using Emotion, Open Space and Creativity |access-date=2024-09-27 |editor-last2=Poulsen |editor-first2=Christian |editor-last3=Stylios |editor-first3=Chrysostomos |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282291120}}</ref><ref name="NCCSTS">{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/about/|access-date=2018-09-12|website=National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS)|publisher=University at Buffalo|editor-first1=Clyde F.|editor-last1=Herreid|editor-first2=Nancy A.|editor-last2=Schiller|editor-first3=Carolyn|editor-last3=Wright|editor-first4=Ky|editor-last4=Herreid|archive-date=2018-09-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913002426/http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/about/|url-status=dead}}</ref>