Renee Campoy, Ed.D. has an educational background as an elementary teacher and now as a university professor. She has done extensive work with qualitative research methods and design and has also worked extensively with alternative assessment and instructional methods with classroom teachers. Her book, A Case Study of a Professional Development School (Greenwood) was published in 2000 and she also has a chapter in Effective Educational Partnerships (Greenwood), which published in 2002. She has been published in the following journals: Contemporary Education, The Professional Educator, Reading Improvement, American School Board Journal, SRATE Journal, and Kentucky ASCD Journal
Presented in an engaging and stimulating manner, Case Study Analysis in the Classroom: Becoming a Reflective Teacher provides beginning teachers a variety of typical classroom problems to analyze and solve. Solving the case study problems helps new teachers develop the knowledge bases they need to solve real problems in their own classrooms. More than a book of cases, it is an important starting point for students learning about case study research, especially the analysis of cases and their potential uses in the classroom. In addition, readers will also be guided through the process of reflective problem solving, developing an educational philosophy, and writing their own case studies
