The Nephrology Quiz and Questionnaire remains an extremely popular session for attendees of the annual Kidney Week meeting of the American Society of Nephrology. During the 2015 meeting the conference hall was once again overflowing with eager quiz participants. Topics covered by the experts included electrolyte and acid-base disorders, glomerular disease, end-stage renal disease and dialysis, ...

Uncertainty may be an important component of the motivation provided by learning games, especially when associated with gaming rather than learning. Three studies are reported that explore the influence of gaming uncertainty on engagement with computer-based learning games. In the first study, children (10–11 years) played a simple maths quiz. Participants chose their preferred reward for a cor...

This article describes the transition of an oral and maxillofacial radiology course from a traditional lecture format to an interactive case-based, team-based, interdisciplinary, and intraprofessional learning model in advanced dental education. Forty-four postdoctoral dental students were enrolled in the course over a twelve-week period in the fall semester 2012. The class consisted of U.S.- a...

This paper studies how service providers can construct social interaction among participants and quantify the causal impact of that interaction on service quality. We focus on education and analyze whether encouraging social interaction among students improves learning outcomes in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which are a new service delivery channel with universal access at reduced, if ...

Kibble J. Use of unsupervised online quizzes as formative assessment in a medical physiology course: effects of incentives on student participation and performance. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 253–260, 2007; doi:10.1152/advan.00027.2007.—Online quizzes were introduced into a large Medical Physiology class to provide students with formative assessment before midterm and final summative examinations. Us...

A N ASYMPTOMATIC 9-year-old girl with normal childhood development was referred for DNA sequence analysis of the RET proto-oncogene on chromosome 10. She was the daughter of a woman with multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2A (MEN-2A). Genetic testing revealed a mutation involving codon 618 of the RET proto-oncogene that changed the wild-type TGC codon to a TCC codon. Her mother and 6-ye...

The MacQTEX quiz system uses JavaScript [1, 9] embedded within PDF format [4] documents to allow students to do multiple-choice style quizzes. The Internet may be used to supply the quiz document, and to record results. But even when not connected, there is immediate feedback as to how many questions were answered correctly and what are the correct answers, as well as providing worked solutions...

The idea that teaching others is a powerful way to learn is both intuitively compelling, and one that has garnered support in the research literature. The present study investigates aspects of the “learning by teaching” process that contribute to enhanced learning outcomes for students. We developed a computer-based teachable “agent” that students explicitly teach using concept maps. Results in...

This image based series comprises of a quiz pertaining to the identification of salient anatomical structures expected to be seen at a given level on the computed tomography (CT) followed by examples of multiple representative pathologies that can be seen at the same level in a routine clinical setting. It is expected that this will improve confidence of nuclear physicians in interpretation of ...