The objective structured practical examination (OSPE) is a useful evaluation method for testing psychomotor skills. Students for the degree in medical laboratory technology require to learn certain skills which will make them useful in any research or teaching laboratory in experimental pharmacology. We outline an OSPE which can be used for evaluating students in experimental pharmacology.

This article demonstrates that careful planning and management can help to ensure effective learning for pre-registration students during theory and practical skills teaching. It highlights two lesson plans with intended learning outcomes, one for a didactic teaching session and the other for a psychomotor clinical skills session. The article identifies a variety of teaching and learning strate...

purpose – this paper aims to describe the role of public libraries in bridging the digital divide. the paper firstly reviews the existing literature body in this area and then suggests a number of practical solutions. digital divide is a concept which appears in the area of information and communication technology (ict) since 1990 and refers to the existing inequality in accessing to ict among ...

Critical thinking has been the goal of education for centuries. According to World Economic Forum, critical is most important skill workers. The modern educational environment in this digital age equipped with smart devices and software help develop students’ stimulate creativity. Students will have access many sources knowledge rich cultures. Thus, students need construct new independently, bu...

The article describes a software package (automated knowledge assessment system) that allows in practice to apply new type of tasks for automated control and skills programming, based on constructive-selective method. In such tasks, the student constructs an answer (program) from proposed components (lines program code), task involves many correct answers. A assessing previously studied algorit...

OBJECTIVES This longitudinal study was aimed to investigate the association between didactic grades and practical skills for dental students and whether didactic grades can reliability predict the dental students' practical performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS Didactic and practical grades for graduates from the Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, between the years 2009 and 2011 we...

This paper suggests two interpretations of the practical relevance of IT education at the university level, as the congruence between the skill requirements of IT experts and the skills provided by the education, and as the congruence between practitioners’ education expectations concerning the skills to be taught and the skills provided by the education. The paper analyzes these tw...