‘The bus analogy’: A new analogy to help pharmacy students conceptualize the well-stirred model
| Autor: | Renée Dagenais, Arden R. Barry, Mary H H Ensom |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Educational measurement
media_common.quotation_subject education Analogy Pharmacy Presentation Surveys and Questionnaires Mathematics education Humans General Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Curriculum media_common British Columbia business.industry Teaching Test (assessment) Liver Pharmaceutical Preparations Students Pharmacy Education Pharmacy Administration Intravenous Educational Measurement Psychology business human activities |
| Zdroj: | Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. 9:639-643 |
| ISSN: | 1877-1297 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cptl.2017.03.014 |
| Popis: | Background and purpose To determine whether an analogy relating a city bus to the well-stirred model for high extraction drugs administered intravenously improves pharmacy students' self-perceived and objectively-assessed understanding. Educational activity and setting Fifty-two entry-to-practice pharmacy students enrolled in an elective clinical pharmacokinetics course completed a questionnaire and quiz before and after the bus analogy presentation. Pre- and post test questionnaires consisted of five items measuring (on five-point unipolar scale) students' self-perceived understanding of the model. Pre- and posttest quizzes contained one case-based question requiring mathematical, graphical, and intuitive understanding. Student's paired t -test with unequal variances was used to compare pre- and posttest results. Findings The bus analogy significantly improved students' self-perceived understanding of the model for all questionnaire items (p Summary The bus analogy significantly improved pharmacy students' understanding of the well-stirred model both subjectively and objectively, and should be an adjunct to pharmacokinetics curricula. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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