doi: 10.18178/ijiet.2017.7.2.849
Implementing an Online Student Laboratory Data Repository in a First Year Undergraduate Health Science Course
Craig Engstrom1
,
Michael Bulmer2 ,
Peter Newcombe3 ,
Ben Hoffman1
- 1School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, 4072 Australia
- 2School of Mathematics and Statistics, the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, 4072 Australia
- 3School of Psychology, the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, 4072 Australia
Abstract
In many large first year undergraduate courses in the health sciences, students participate in practical sessions (pracs) in which they are taught about and provided with opportunities to practice basic skills and techniques for measuring biophysical and psychological variables. We have successfully developed and implemented an Online Student Laboratory Data Repository in an introductory health science course which provides rich opportunities for using a large, student centric dataset in lecture components of the course to explore and evaluate underlying principles, models and theories within the discipline or profession. In future work we will examine its effectiveness in improving collaboration between undergraduate students from different health science programs.
Keywords
- Practical class data
- student-centric
- online data collation
How to Cite
Craig Engstrom, Michael Bulmer, Peter Newcombe, and Ben Hoffman, "Implementing an Online Student Laboratory Data Repository in a First Year Undergraduate Health Science Course," International Journal of Information and Education Technology, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 100-105, 2017. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijiet.2017.7.2.849
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