ASSEB HS Community Science case studies
ASSEB HS Community Science · Put your knowledge to work in context.
ASSEB HS Community Science is the Higher Secondary elective offered under the Assam State School Education Board at the +2 stage. It blends natural science with social science around everyday life: food and nutrition, human development and family studies, textiles and clothing, family resource management and interior space, community health and sanitation, extension education, and the communication and entrepreneurial skills that tie those areas together. The ASSEB HS Community Science case studies are 5 cases and about 4,371 words.
1The girl with Hb 9.4 g/dL and a mother who trusts tonic
A community nutritionist in a peri-urban settlement screens a 14-year-old girl, Rita, during a school health camp. Her height-for-age is normal, BMI-for-age is at the 12th percentile, and haemoglobin is 9.4 g/dL; no other laboratory test is available.
900 words, about 5 min2Arsenic pump, broken toilets and 27 diarrhoea cases in six weeks
A block health officer reviews six weeks of data from a revenue village of 60 households (312 people, including 41 children under five). Of three hand pumps, the one nearest to 30 households has just tested at 0.11 mg/L arsenic against a standard of 0.05 mg/L; the other two are safe, but one is 400 m away across a highway and the third serves the school.
867 words, about 4 min3Two rooms, six people, one socket and two scalds
A family of six - two parents, a son of 16, a daughter of 12, a grandmother with knee arthritis, and a 4-year-old - rents a 46 m² ground-floor flat of two rooms. The kitchen measures 2.1 m × 1.8 m with a single window opening onto a covered courtyard; the LPG cylinder sits on the floor beside the sink, leaving a 40 cm strip as the only work surface.
880 words, about 4 min4500 school shirts in six weeks with one old overlock machine
A registered women's tailoring collective of 12 members wins its first large order: 500 school shirts in six weeks at a price quoted per shirt, with 30% advance and the balance on delivery. Fabric and thread must be bought before stitching starts and will consume about 60% of the order value.
860 words, about 4 min5A discredited variety, a sceptical chair and women outside the cooperative
An extension officer in a rain-fed block must promote a new short-duration, blight-tolerant rice variety to 180 farm households. Two seasons ago a different 'improved' variety failed badly here: untreated seed, a false promise of earliness, and lodging after unseasonal rain cost several families part of their crop.
864 words, about 4 min