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The evolution of a lab practical: The role of learning modality in assessment
Author(s) -
Prall Cristina R.,
Fox Glenn M.,
Alsup B. Kathleen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.444.10
Subject(s) - cadaveric spasm , curriculum , modality (human–computer interaction) , test (biology) , computer science , mathematics education , medical physics , medical education , psychology , artificial intelligence , medicine , anatomy , biology , pedagogy , paleontology
Curricula may fail to assess the incongruences between the various methods of learning employed by students and assessments. In the University of Michigan Human Anatomy course (ANAT 403), students are provided with physical specimens to study in lab, as well as cadaveric images developed by the BlueLink project. Lab practicals were first offered with physical specimens, and were later replaced with projected BlueLink cadaveric images. As images were used for both student studying and assessment, it was hypothesized that using other sources of cadaveric images for lab practicals would create more of a challenge for students. Assessment data was collected and compared from Fall 2017 that utilized BlueLink images during the exam, and from Fall 2018 that use published atlas images. Instructors were constant. While some variation exists within the data, no overall statistically significant effects on test scores were found between the two virtual testing strategies. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .