“Practical Work as It Says Practical is Something Students do by Themselves…”

Quantitative Dengue Test: Is it Practical for Clinical Practice?

Practical work : making it more effective

This article outlines a model for thinking about the effectiveness of practical activities in school science and how this might be evaluated. This was used in a research study of current practice in the use of whole-class practical work in secondary schools in England. The emphasis in the lessons observed was on successfully ‘producing the phenomenon’. Little whole-class time was used to discus...

The Practical Importance of Knowledge (Such as It Is)

Matt Weiner Department of Philosophy University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Abstract In Knowledge and Lotteries, Hawthorne argues for a view on which whether a speaker knows that p depends on whether her practical environment makes it appropriate for her to use p in practical reasoning. It may seem that this view yields a straightforward account of why knowledge is important, based on the role of k...

quantitative dengue test: is it practical for clinical practice?

Students integrate knowledge acquisition and practical work in the laboratory.

The aim of the present work was to transfer a wider concept of teamwork and self-learning to the laboratory, encouraging students' capabilities when seeking, acquiring, and processing knowledge. This educational innovation was carried out with a total of 38 students (fourth year of degree in Biology) in the area of physiology (Advances in Reproduction course) at University of Córdoba in Córdoba...