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Schutte, Audra F. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2016
Anatomy courses frequently serve as prerequisites or requirements for health sciences programs. Due to the challenging nature of anatomy, each semester there are students remediating the course (enrolled in the course for a second time), attempting to earn a grade competitive for admissions into a program of study. In this retrospective study,…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Undergraduate Study, Health Sciences, Remedial Instruction
DeCiccio, Albert; Kenny, Tammy; Lippacher, Linda; Flanary, Barry – Online Submission, 2011
Many first-year students interested in healthcare careers do not succeed in Anatomy and Physiology I (A&PI), which they take in their first semester. These first-year students withdraw from the course or the institution, or their final grade may be below the identified threshold for progressing in their programs. A&PI has become a…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, College Freshmen, Physiology, Anatomy
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Scruggs, Thomas E.; Mastropieri, Margo A.; Berkeley, Sheri L.; Marshak, Lisa – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2010
This article presents information on using mnemonic strategies to enhance learning and memory of students with mild disabilities. Different types of mnemonic strategies are described, including the keyword method, the pegword method, and letter strategies. Following this, a number of teachers describe their own applications of mnemonic strategies…
Descriptors: Mild Mental Retardation, Mental Retardation, Learning Disabilities, Anatomy
Keyser, Diane – Online Submission, 2010
To design a series of assessments that could be used to compare the learning gains of high school students studying the cardiopulmonary system using traditional methods to those who used a collaborative computer simulation, called "Mr. Vetro". Five teachers and 264 HS biology students participated in the study. The students were in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Simulation, Cooperative Learning, Human Body