INTRODUCTION This study was conducted to correlate the personal formaldehyde (FA) exposure levels of instructors and students with the indoor FA concentrations in gross anatomy laboratory at King Saud University. The personal FA levels of instructors and students are higher than the indoor FA concentration in the gross anatomy laboratory. MATERIALS AND METHODS The gross anatomy laboratory at ...

We set out to identify the benefits and drawbacks of using more than one instructor to teach single section science courses at a large research university. Nine courses were investigated involving widely differing subjects and levels. Teaching models included: sequential teaching with two to six instructors each covering only their own modules, two teachers present in class at all times, and hy...

"Anatomy and Pathology Workshop" is a cadaver-based outreach program that models medical education to large groups of high school students. This study was designed to evaluate the impact of this program on students' knowledge of anatomy and interest in biomedical science. A total of 144 high school students participated in the workshop in 2015. Preworkshop and postworkshop assessments were admi...

OBJECTIVE To determine faculty perceptions about an evidence-based peer teaching assessment system. METHODS Faculty members who served as instructors and assessors completed questionnaires after year 1 (2002-2003) and year 4 (2005-2006) of the peer assessment program. Factors were evaluated using a Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree; 5 = strongly agree) and included logistics, time, fosterin...

Conceptests are higher-order multiple-choice questions that focus on one key concept of an instructor's major learning goals for a lesson. When coupled with student interaction through peer instruction, conceptests represent a rapid method of formative assessment of student understanding, require minimal changes to the instructional environment and introduce many of the recognized principles of...

Dental schools continue to have difficulty recruiting and retaining faculty. One approach to augment student learning would be to train and utilize senior dental students as instructors in preclinical courses. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of using senior dental students as instructors on the performance of second-year students in two preclinical prosthodontic courses. In the...

The significant increase in enrolment in the mathematics courses at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) over the past semesters has resulted in an increase of teaching loads for the instructors. This has left little time for the instructors to be involved in supervision of graduate students and do research work. Due to this recurring problem that the instructors encounter every semester, an alt...

The flipped classroom model is an instructional model in which students learn basic subject matter knowledge prior to in-class meetings, then come to the classroom for active learning experiences. Previous research has shown that the flipped classroom model can motivate students towards active learning, can improve their higher-order thinking skills, and can improve their collaborative learning...

OBJECTIVES To report the theory-based process evaluation of the Bristol Girls' Dance Project, a cluster-randomised controlled trial to increase adolescent girls' physical activity. DESIGN A mixed-method process evaluation of the intervention's self-determination theory components comprising lesson observations, post-intervention interviews and focus groups. METHOD Four intervention dance le...