"VIRTUAL QUIZ": A TOOL FOR ACTIVE LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT IN CLINICAL ANATOMY

Clinical Anatomy, introduced in different medical curricula around the world, is considered of relevance for future physicians, since it allows the integration of anatomical knowledge with clinical activity developed by health professionals. Besides helping to develop the essential "critical anatomical reasoning" identified as crucial to the acquisition of "clinical reasoning", this area of knowledge contributes to the translation between the basic and the clinical areas in Medical Education....

ONLINE ASSESSMENT: MAKE IT SIMPLE

There is an ongoing project on the University of Porto (U.PORTO) that aims the association of two didactical tools of information and communication technologies: elearning and computer based assessment (CBA). In order to make the convergence of e-learning with CBA there are several issues that have to be addressed: pedagogical problems in the assessment methods, technical problems in the implementation process and organizational problems that are particularly complex in an university campus l...

Development of resources for computer-based testing in campus-wide IT systems

The aim of this work is to give a brief account of an ongoing project at the University of Porto which aims to connect two different fields of teaching and learning: e-learning and computer-based assessment. Although these are contiguous areas, related to each other, there are some issues that rise from the use of computers to engage assessment activities. The University of Porto started a vigorous project of e-learning and development of e-content in 2003. The main results already achieved a...