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Using a Teaching Intervention and Calibrated Peer Review™ Diagnostics to Improve Visual Communication Skills.

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Saterbak, A; Moturu, A; Volz, T
Published in: Annals of biomedical engineering
March 2018

Rice University's bioengineering department incorporates written, oral, and visual communication instruction into its undergraduate curriculum to aid student learning and to prepare students to communicate their knowledge and discoveries precisely and persuasively. In a tissue culture lab course, we used a self- and peer-review tool called Calibrated Peer Review™ (CPR) to diagnose student learning gaps in visual communication skills on a poster assignment. We then designed an active learning intervention that required students to practice the visual communication skills that needed improvement and used CPR to measure the changes. After the intervention, we observed that students performed significantly better in their ability to develop high quality graphs and tables that represent experimental data. Based on these outcomes, we conclude that guided task practice, collaborative learning, and calibrated peer review can be used to improve engineering students' visual communication skills.

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Annals of biomedical engineering

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EISSN

1573-9686

ISSN

0090-6964

Publication Date

March 2018

Volume

46

Issue

3

Start / End Page

513 / 524

Related Subject Headings

  • Test Taking Skills
  • Social Skills
  • Male
  • Learning
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Bioengineering
  • Audiovisual Aids
  • Adult
 

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Saterbak, A., Moturu, A., & Volz, T. (2018). Using a Teaching Intervention and Calibrated Peer Review™ Diagnostics to Improve Visual Communication Skills. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 46(3), 513–524. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-017-1946-x
Saterbak, Ann, Anoosha Moturu, and Tracy Volz. “Using a Teaching Intervention and Calibrated Peer Review™ Diagnostics to Improve Visual Communication Skills.Annals of Biomedical Engineering 46, no. 3 (March 2018): 513–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-017-1946-x.
Saterbak A, Moturu A, Volz T. Using a Teaching Intervention and Calibrated Peer Review™ Diagnostics to Improve Visual Communication Skills. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2018 Mar;46(3):513–24.
Saterbak, Ann, et al. “Using a Teaching Intervention and Calibrated Peer Review™ Diagnostics to Improve Visual Communication Skills.Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 46, no. 3, Mar. 2018, pp. 513–24. Epmc, doi:10.1007/s10439-017-1946-x.
Saterbak A, Moturu A, Volz T. Using a Teaching Intervention and Calibrated Peer Review™ Diagnostics to Improve Visual Communication Skills. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2018 Mar;46(3):513–524.
Journal cover image

Published In

Annals of biomedical engineering

DOI

EISSN

1573-9686

ISSN

0090-6964

Publication Date

March 2018

Volume

46

Issue

3

Start / End Page

513 / 524

Related Subject Headings

  • Test Taking Skills
  • Social Skills
  • Male
  • Learning
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Bioengineering
  • Audiovisual Aids
  • Adult