📚 EP #02: Research Snippet
💬 What if ...
you could turn your students' most common exam mistakes into a game?
🔑 Key Insight for Active Learning
The article reviews the use of 'Concept Cartoons' alongside a student response system using a Think-Pair-Share approach.
By presenting a cartoon where characters debate common misconceptions, and the answers are actually derived directly from previous years' failed exam answers, educators can trigger immediate cognitive conflict and peer discussion. This allows students to identify and correct their own misunderstandings in real-time.
🌟 Why it matters
First-year nursing students often struggle with the heavy conceptual load of A&P, leading to high failure rates and persistent misconceptions that threaten clinical safety.
The method proposed in this study creates active formative assessments, specifically by making abstract concepts visible and debatable.
🔗 Link and Reference
Want to learn more about how it works? Link to article and citation:
- Link to study
- Finbråten, H. S., Grønlien, H. K., Pettersen, K. S., Foss, C., & Guttersrud, Ø. (2022). “Nursing students’ experiences with concept cartoons as an active learning strategy for developing conceptual understanding in anatomy and physiology: A mixed-method study.” Nurse Education in Practice, 65, 103493.