The Effects of Inactivity During COVID-19 Pandemic on the Psychomotor Skills Kindergarten Students

The objective structured practical examination (OSPE) is a useful evaluation method for testing psychomotor skills. Students for the degree in medical laboratory technology require to learn certain skills which will make them useful in any research or teaching laboratory in experimental pharmacology. We outline an OSPE which can be used for evaluating students in experimental pharmacology.

This article demonstrates that careful planning and management can help to ensure effective learning for pre-registration students during theory and practical skills teaching. It highlights two lesson plans with intended learning outcomes, one for a didactic teaching session and the other for a psychomotor clinical skills session. The article identifies a variety of teaching and learning strate...

This is the second book in 'Health, Functioning and Technology' series. The focus of this on teaching, learning assessment rehabilitation education within African context. primary contributors to are authors from occupational therapy, physiotherapy speech-language therapy South Africa. discuss local contextual drivers for renewing professions curricula that support graduates becoming competent,...

Deficits in specific cognitive and psychomotor capacities, such as attention, reaction time, memory, and hand-eye coordination ability are associated with increased crash risk, especially among older drivers (e.g., Anstey et al., 2005). Higher-order cognitive processes are also closely linked with hazard perception skills (e.g., Groeger, 2000). Employing a large professional driver sample, this...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Children with specific learning disabilities (SpLD) have an unexplained difficulty in acquiring basic academic skills resulting in a significant discrepancy between their academic potential and achievements. This study was undertaken to compare the performance on a battery of six psychomotor tests of children with SpLD and those without any learning disabilities (control...

The primary objective of the preclinical dental anatomy course in the predoctoral dental curriculum is to introduce students to cognitive and psychomotor skills related to the morphology and spatial and functional relationships of human dentition. Traditionally, didactic content for the subject is found in textbooks and course manuals and summarized by the faculty in lectures to the entire clas...