Case Study
Alisha is a 22-year-old mother of a two-year-old girl named Sophie. Alisha was married at 19 and had her daughter when she was 20. Alisha’s husband, her high school sweetheart, was killed in a car accident 11 months ago. Alicia lives alone with her daughter, but does have family nearby to babysit while Alisha works and attends classes at a community college. She is in the second semester of her freshman year. Alisha has always wanted to be nurse and decided to pursue her degree after her husband died. She wants a better life for herself, and wants to set a good example for Sophie.
During her first semester she struggled in her classes, earning two D’s and one C. Just three weeks into this semester, Alicia is already falling behind. She finds it hard to focus on schoolwork and missed several classes when she could not find a babysitter. Her English Composition instructor called Alicia when he discovered that she submitted a paper that had been submitted by another student the previous semester. During the conversation, Alisha admitted that she had plagiarized because she was feeling overwhelmed and was not prepared for the challenges of school. During the conversation, she began to cry and said, “I didn’t know it would be this hard. I feel like such a failure for my daughter, and I miss my husband.” She told her professor that she was going to call an academic counselor and drop out. The instructor believes that Alisha is fully capable but is having a rough time adjusting to all the changes in her life. He is thinking about how to work with the counselor and other campus support services to help Alisha and keep her from withdrawing.
In this course project, you will apply educational psychology theories to a case study. Click Launch Presentation to view the case studies. After selecting a case study, examine the facts presented in the scenario. Once you have gathered this preliminary information, identify one or more learning theories that are relevant to understanding the case, then seek relevant scholarly research to guide your understanding of the case. Based on what you know about learning theory, principles, and concepts, combine the case facts and information, theory, and research findings to help guide you in your discussion of the case.
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