The Success Case Method
If you want to know if your program's participants mastered the objectives of the program, the Success Case Method might be for you. (See this report for a summary of this method: http://tinyurl.com/successcasemethod). This approach involves focusing on those individuals who were either particularly successful or particularly unsuccessful at learning your program's objectives.The approach is very purposeful, in that you don't select a random sample of participants; you go to participants at both ends of the learner spectrum to gather information. It might seem odd to not focus on the average learner, but not so. Focusing on the extremes can offer you much more specific information that is likely to help the average learner as the goal is to seek out successes and failures and rigorously describe the story of...
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