Application of formative assessment in teaching histology

VernacularTitle:形成性评价在组织学教学中的应用
Author: jing Xiao QIAN ¹ ; ying Wen QIU ; yuan Yuan XU ; mei Yong CHEN
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1. 中国医学科学院基础医学研究所北京协和医学院基础学院人体解剖与组织胚胎学系
Keywords: formative assessment; teaching quality; histology
From: Basic & Clinical Medicine 2017;37(12):1785-1788
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the effects of formative assessment in teaching histology .Methods Multiple methods were used , including homework , self-test and quiz , questionnaire survey and so on , to evaluated teaching process .Collected data were analyzed statistically .Results Autonomous homework was welcomed by students:89.8%of the students believed that homework was necessary , and nearly half of them thought they got profit from this.Students who completed the self-tests more got higher score in the final exam than those who completed less . Questions with high error rate in quiz got higher accuracy in the final exam .Students thought their ability , especially the autonomous learning ability , improved during the learning process .Conclusions Both teachers and students got profit in the aspects of knowledge , ability and emotion from introducing formative assessment into teaching and learn -ing process .Quality of teaching histology would be improved through better assessment methods and means .