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Correlation Between Hands On Activities And Transfer Skills On Assessments
Author(s) -
Anjur Sowmya
Publication year - 2015
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.29.1_supplement.687.22
Subject(s) - unit (ring theory) , test (biology) , mathematics education , transfer of learning , psychology , medical education , medicine , biology , ecology , developmental psychology
Students at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora are part of a teaching laboratory that encourages creative learning. Students in the course Physiology and Disease are exposed to basic physiological concepts using novel hands on methods to help them understand the material better. This semester, in order to observe the effect of hands on activities on student understanding, students made heart models to study the anatomy and physiology of the heart. Their scores on the heart unit assessment were evaluated for understanding by correlating their scores on heart model building with specific transfer questions on the heart unit. It was observed that students who spent more time on building their heart models also seemed to be better equipped to answer transfer questions on the heart unit test.