Abstract When groups of students are assigned a joint case, they are most likely to achieve the objectives of positive interdependence, individual accountability, heterogeneous interactions, and attention to group processing when the case assignment is selected and designed to promote common task activities by each participant. This article provides aids for selecting appropriate cases for a team approach, structuring assignments into individual and group components, forming teams effectively, and structuring peer feedback. The technique of assignment design is both described and applied to the “Corn & Hogs” case from Cases on Recognition and Measurement from the FASB [Johnson, L. T., & Petrone, K. R. (1996a). The FASB cases on recognition and measurement (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley]. In addition, a list of published case resources is provided for instructors to use with this pedagogy.
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