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Cadaveric Dissection in Relation to Problem-Based Learning Case Sequencing: A Report of Medical Student Musculoskeletal Examination Performances and Self-Confidence
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Thompson, Kristjan L.; Gendreau, Julian L.; Strickling, Jarred E.; Young, Henry E. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2019
Mercer University School of Medicine utilizes a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum for educating medical students in the basic clinical sciences. In 2014, an adjustment was piloted that enabled PBL cases to align with their corresponding cadaver dissection that reviewed the content of anatomy contained in the PBL cases. Faculty had the option…
Descriptors: Laboratory Procedures, Human Body, Problem Based Learning, Medical Students
Incorporating Third-Party Online Certifications into a Marketing Course: The Effect of Learning Style on Student Responses
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Kim, Dae-Hee; Hettche, Matt; Spiller, Lisa – Marketing Education Review, 2019
To advance the pedagogical discussion on adopting third-party certifications in marketing courses, this article examines responses of undergraduate students with different learning styles to the online certification program incorporated into marketing classes. While the overall student opinions were positive especially as a valuable addition for…
Descriptors: Marketing, Cognitive Style, Certification, Undergraduate Students
Development and Implementation of a Two-Semester Introductory Organic-Bioorganic Chemistry Sequence: Conclusions from the First Six Years
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Goess, Brian C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
A two-semester second-year introductory organic chemistry sequence featuring one semester of accelerated organic chemistry followed by one semester of bioorganic chemistry is described. Assessment data collected over a six-year period reveal that such a course sequence can facilitate student mastery of fundamental organic chemistry in the first…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Organic Chemistry, Curriculum Development, Sequential Approach
Negotiating Assignment Pathways: Students and Academic Assignments
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McDowell, Liz – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
Existing research identifies that students' approaches to assignments are related to their general approaches to study. It is suggested that students need to better understand the requirements of assignments and acquire new concepts such as "argument". This fine-grained study proposes four qualitatively distinct assignment pathways: gathering,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Theory Practice Relationship, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
The Effect of Sequence Control on Computer Assisted Learning.
Gray, Susan H. – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1987
Reviews study of 80 undergraduate sociology students which compared the effects of two types of sequencing in computer assisted instruction: (1) linear, or fixed, and (2) flip, or branching. Results indicate that students in the flip sequence condition performed better on comprehension measures but not on retention measures. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Branching, Comprehension, Computer Assisted Instruction, Correlation
A Research-Based Teaching Sequence for Teaching the Concept of Modelling to Seventh-Grade Students
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Saari, Heikki – International Journal of Science Education, 2003
The purpose of this study was to construct and study the impact of a research-based sequence for teaching the concept of modelling to seventh-grade science students. We identified students' notions of models and the aspects of school science to be addressed regarding the model concept, which were then taken into account when we planned the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Science Activities, Educational Research, Science Instruction