Global Classroom: ICE Case Study Assignments
Assignment 2: Related ICE Cases
©James Lee
The Related Cases Assignment (Assignment #2)
Now that you have chosen your case study, and briefly described it, this
assignment pushes you to examine and think about other ICE case studies
that are similar or comparable to yours. This provides some important background
sources of information but also some actual information to include in the
case study.
The first part of the assignment is to think about locating your case
in the framework of some simple attributes. Use the TED search engine, which
allows for two differing types of searches. Here is the link.
Search Engines
ICE Expert System
and Search Engine
Use the basic search engine for the first two parts of the assngment.
To do this enter only one category of information and leave the others as
they are. This essentially, by itself, works as a search engine. The third
part of the assignment will use the adanced feature and to input all the
features from your cases to find cumualtive matches.
First, choose a free-text term to search on (it searches the case abstracts).
Report the findings as to what kinds of cases emerged, especially those
that occur most often.
Second, choose two categorical areas for search related to your case.
Report the findings as to what kinds of cases emerged, especially those
that occur most often.
Third, use the ICE Expert Sorts to determine the cases most like your
own. Input the atteibutes of your case, and look at the top 10 case most
like yours, based on cateogry matchings.
The Context
Choose your case and think about its attributes within the categories
of the case study (see the TED template if you need to). You have used the
search engine in three ways to look at the data. So what does it say, in
both quantitative and qualitative terms? Print out each of these lists of
related cases and their attributes and turn them in with the write-up.
Use descriptive statistics to discuss the context for relating these cases
to your effort, especially simple frequencies and percentages. For each
of the three sets of data, break them out on the basis of frequency counts
to tell me something about the kinds of cases that relate to the one you
are undertaking. In each of these analyses, try to answer to find some interesting
aspect of the case and add a qualitative content. For example, perhaps many
of the cases come from a particular culture or a particular type of problem.
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