Real-time Competition Among Teachers and Students – a Method for Improving Teaching and Assessing Physiology

University of Bristol (2005) J Physiol 567P, WA9

Poster Communications: Real-time Competition Among Teachers and Students – a Method for Improving Teaching and Assessing Physiology

Gliga, Mihai;

1. Physiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Targu-Mures, Mures, Romania.

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Every University consists ultimately in relationship between students and professors and probably every University is concerned on students to improve performances and on professors to actualize courses to the last achievements of the domain or to some new curricula. We developed our own concept of real-time competition among teachers and students and also software to support this concept. We developed software for easy editing physiology courses and tests, software for teaching, individual studying and smart performing tests with multiple choice answers. Finally we developed software for evidence of individual or group results evolution and classification. Tests control student knowledge and improve access to gained information and, if questions in tests are of high quality, they will help student even to think. Unfortunately student’s desire to perform tests isn’t strong enough to determine professors to generate permanently revised material to be tested and tests on low quality questions won’t bring significant results. An attempt to improve performances and desire of student to test himself is to give him opportunity to make a self-evaluation, that is self-evolution and comparison with others. Professor has to feed this assessing process with some criteria, preferably unique in time and for all competitors and also has also to obtain feedback of how good are these criteria, how many students and how deep are they implied in performing tests. Until now students were evaluated in classical exams performed at too large interval of time to rise the spirit of competition but today, when time runs faster, we have to give students the opportunity of any time testing and instant evaluation. This real-time competition among students improves students’ results and lead to reachable goals for professors giving them reasons to generate more material to be studied and tested. This repeating circle considerably improves teaching and assessing physiology.



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