Case Study Guidelines
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Case Study #3
After watching a movie on nutrition and obesity, some middle school students started discussing the food served in their school cafeteria. They collectively felt that much of the food that their cafeteria served each day could be leading to obesity among the pre-teens and teens who attended their school. The felt they needed accurate data before they could state their concerns to the principal, parents, and school board members. Their goal is to convince these stakeholders to begin serving more fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, and salads in place of fried foods, pizza, and other foods high in fat.
Questions to Answer:
- How can they discover the percentage of other students who share their concerns?
- How can they discover the percentage of parents who share their concerns?
- What data regarding school lunches should they collect? How will they find this data?
- What data regarding nutrition should they collect? How will they find this data?
- What data regarding obesity should they collect? How will they find this data?
- For how long should they gather these data?
Solving the Case
- What is the problem that requires a resolution?
- Who are possible stakeholders in the case?
- What is the intended resolution of the case?
- What data must be gathered to find a resolution to the problem?
- How will this data be gather?
- How will this data be most effectively displayed and shared?
- To whom will this data be shared?
- How will this data be used to resolve the problem?
- What constraints might hinder the resolution of this problem?
- What factors might help provide a solution to this problem?
Evaluating the Process
- How was the process of addressing this case through a collaborative process different from addressing this case as an individual?
- Were any of your assumptions exposed as a result of the process? If so, which ones?
- How were conflicts normally resolved, and to whose benefit?
- What are the benefits of assembling a diverse team to address this problem?
- What ideas or perspectives were shared that you would not have otherwise considered?
- What was the most difficult part of participating in this process?
- What was the most satisfying part of participating in this process?
Submitting Your Responses
Before the next face-to-face class, submit the following to Dr. Christie:
- Your group's solution to the Case
- Your group's responses to "Solving the Case"
- Your group's responses to "Evaluating the Process"
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