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COMPREHENSION & CASE

STUDY ANALYSIS

Dhendrup Tshering
WHAT?
• The case presents facts about a particular
organization.
• Asked to analyze the case by focusing on the
most important facts and to determine the
opportunities and problems facing that
organization.
• Required to identify alternative courses of action
to deal with the problems they identify.
• A method for understanding a particular person,
institution, society, etc. by collecting and interpreting
relevant information
• Examples of educational uses:
• Medicine and law: what worked and what didn’t work
• Business: practise solving real-world problems
• Social science: a research strategy for examining an
aspect of society or human nature
• Criticism: usually not generalizable and not falsifiable
• Involves a research protocol that
CHARACTERISTICS
OF CASE STUDY
outlines key tasks
• Multiple sources of information,
existing literature and models, and
informed judgement
• May involve some degree of
participant observation
• Conclusions build on evidence,
leading to an articulation of new
ideas
The Analysts must do…
• A case study analysis must not
merely summarize the case.
• It should identify key issues and
problems,
• Outline and assess alternative courses
of action,
• Draw appropriate conclusions.
Steps to Understanding CASE STUDY

i. Identify the most important facts


surrounding the case.
ii. Identify the key issue or issues.
iii. Specify alternative courses of action.
iv. Evaluate each course of action.
v. Recommend the best course of
action.
Identify the most important facts
1. surrounding the case.
• Familiarize yourself with the information present
(Underline the key points that would answer the
case problem).
• Information can be accompanying exhibits, tables,
or figures.
• Facts and figures in the case may be true, but
statements, judgments, or decisions can be
questioned
• If key facts and numbers are unavailable, you can
make assumptions (assumptions with rationality).
2. Identify the key issue
or issues.
• Many cases present multiple issues
or problems (Segregate as important
and trivial issues).
• Ask what kind of problem?-
PESTEL model.
• MR-IUD analysis can be done.
• Cause and Effect problem analysis.
Specify alternative courses
3. of action
• List the courses of action to solve its
problem or meet the challenge it
faces.
• Changes required?
• Policy intervention?
• Should do Vs. Can do?
4. Evaluate each course
of action.

• Identify the costs and benefits of


each alternative.
• What would be the likely
outcome of this course of action?
• Risk and Rewards?
• Feasibility or do-ability.
5. Recommend the best course
of action.

• State your choice for the best course


of action.
• Provide a detailed explanation of
why you made this selection.
• No right or wrong.
• Reasoning and rationale are
important.
Tips while reading the text
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Handling comprehension questions
Reading Tips
• Recognizing the main ideas (specific
intention conveyed, the whole textual
information revolves around central idea)
• Identifying the supporting details (examples,
details, facts. Figures, data, reasons, steps
and evidences)
• Recognizing Implied and Stated Ideas.
• Understanding Addition, Time, Comparison
and Contrast Words
Reading Golden Rules
• Answer the question quickly, if you can’t
answer; come back and do it later.
• Reading all text would waste your time, so
practice skim and scan method
• Do easy questions asap to buy time for
difficult questions
• Paraphrased version of answer!
• Topic Sentence and summary line
Basic Skimming Techniques
• Skim the title and questions- gives you summary of the passage
• Skim content words
– Noun, main verbs, adjectives and adverbs
– Do not concentrate on words like article, auxiliary verbs
– Underline the content words
• Basic structure of the sentence
– Subject, verb and object
– Don’t look at adverbs or adjectives
• Skim to recognize the pattern
– Cause and effect, methods and processes
• Looking for nouns helps!
• Skim topic sentences in each paragraph- it briefly introduces you
to idea discussed in that topic
• Do not focus too long on words you do not know- do not underline
it
• Skim verbs of the text to see if the content of the text is changing
– Verbs are perfect ways to show the new information or the change
• Skim a text to understand the theme.
• Use your personal knowledge to see the transition of meaning in
the text- using prediction method.
• Divergent skimming technique: from center to periphery
Gracious!

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