Correspondence to Dr Fernando Gálvez-Montosa; fagalmon@ gmail. com Short deSCription of the CliniCal CaSe A 68-year-old man is being treated with cisplatin-pemetrexed in the first line for bone metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. There is partial response and very good tolerance with no grade 3–4 toxicities. After six cycles of doublet therapy, the patient follows on pemetrexed maintenance. Six mon...

Quizzes are considered one of the more effective methods of learning and teaching as they promote self-learning and motivate students to be more attentive. The present study evaluated the impact of a quiz competition on learning behaviour of postgraduate students in pharmacology. Postgraduate students in pharmacology from medical (M.D.) and pharmaceutical degree colleges (Masters in pharmaceuti...

So the students ask whether Albert & Ronitt could give the surprise quiz Thursday? They observe that if the quiz wasn’t given before Thursday, it would have to be given on the Thursday, since they already know it can’t be given on Friday. But having figured that out, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the quiz was on Thursday either. Similarly, the students reason that the quiz can’t be on Wednesday,...

Examinations and quizzes should be used as learning as well as assessment tools. To achieve this goal, an assessment procedure was developed to enhance as well as assess student learning. Students were tested on four different topics of cardiovascular physiology. Each topic was tested by a different type of quiz (fill in the blanks, single best response multiple choice, short essay, or true/fal...

BACKGROUND Spaced-repetition and test-enhanced learning are two methodologies that boost knowledge retention. ALERT STUDENT is a platform that allows creation and distribution of Learning Objects named flashcards, and provides insight into student judgments-of-learning through a metric called 'recall accuracy'. This study aims to understand how the spaced-repetition and test-enhanced learning f...

See the following page for discussion. The editors of AFP welcome submissions for Photo Quiz. Guidelines for preparing and submitting a Photo Quiz manuscript can be found in the Authors’ Guide at http:// www.aafp.org/afp/ photoquizinfo. To be considered for publication, submissions must meet these guidelines. E-mail submissions to afpphoto@ aafp.org. Contributing editor for Photo Quiz is John E...

A problem when teaching in classrooms in higher education is lack of support for interaction between the students and the teacher during the lecture. We have proposed a lecture game concept that can enhance the communication and motivate students through more interesting lectures. It is a multiplayer quiz game, called Lecture Quiz. This game concept is based on our current technology rich and c...

EMOTIONAL LOAD COGNITIVE LOAD General Instructions General Instructions 1. Saliva collection 1 *for a subsample 1. Stress questionnaire 2. Stress questionnaire 2. Induction of cognitive load (Memorize number) 3. Induction of emotional load (Videoclip) 3. SAT Quiz 1 3.1. Videoclip questions 4. Optimism questionnaire 4. SAT Quiz 1 5. Upgrade and Probability questions 5. Optimism questionnaire 6. ...

BACKGROUND Podcasts are popular with medical students, but the impact of podcast use on learning outcomes in undergraduate medical education has not been studied in detail. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to assess the impact of podcasts accompanied by quiz questions and lecture attendance on short- and medium-term knowledge retention. METHODS Students enrolled for a cardio-respiratory teaching modul...

This paper proposes quiz-style information presentation for interactive systems as a means to improve user understanding in educational tasks. Since the nature of quizzes can highly motivate users to stay voluntarily engaged in the interaction and keep their attention on receiving information, it is expected that information presented as quizzes can be better understood by users. To verify the ...