class presentation of cases

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CLASS PRESENTATION OF CASESAuthor(s): Martin ByrneSource: Financial Education, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall, 1972), p. 75Published by: Financial Education AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41948901 .

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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OP LOS ANGELES Business Administration - Economics Los Angeles, California

Sister Martin Byrne Professor

CLASS PRESENTATION OF CASES

By choice, I use cases as the teaching method in Advanced Financial Policy undergraduate classes. The techniques of case use vary from class group to class group. My latest, and most successful, approach is to assign each student a number of cases from case books on library reserve. No two students have the same case, and each student is expected to present a minimum of four cases orally. The student is free to edit the case as he wishes, but he must present a finan- cial problem or several problems and a solution or alterna- tives with whatever supporting material is needed to support the solution. For the oral presentations, the class functions as a finance committee, a board of directors, a loan committee, as the case presentation warrants. The class members, after questions, disagreements, discussions, etc. decide to accept the solution offered by the student presenter, to reject it, or to request another presentation after additional facts are determined. This approach maximizes student input.

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