It is vitally important that your students be ready to learn from the first day of class.  However, educators frequently tell us that even after a rigorous admissions process, there is still considerable variability in what their incoming students know and don’t know from prior coursework and classes.  Our readiness program is designed to help you better assess your incoming students, take out some of the guesswork as to what they truly know, and identify students who may be at risk of falling behind.

Available for most disciplines, a brief description of our readiness program is available here.

Educators are responsible for demonstrating that their methods of instruction and training deliver acceptable outcomes.  Assessments are key to providing evidence-based outcomes data, but they are often difficult to do, and faculty struggle with developing suitable quizzes and tests for their students.  Concerns about test item security and students memorizing test questions add to the challenge.  We can help by working with faculty to develop course-specific assessments using our extensive question banks featuring thorough coverage of the biomedical sciences.

An example of course-specific assessments we’ve developed for nursing is available here.

Some exams are more important than others.  Capstone exams are intended to measure comprehensively what students are supposed to have mastered at a key milestone in the curriculum.  In some cases, students must pass a Capstone exam in order to progress to the next phase of the curriculum.

See what we’ve done to help schools and colleges of pharmacy tackle the Pharmacy Curriculum Outcomes Assessment (PCOA).

The health professions require that its practitioners demonstrate high degrees of competence, and to be able to apply vast quantities of information to clinical contexts.  We have tools and suggestions to help educators properly assess and demonstrate that their students can make clinical decisions and think critically.

Check out our white paper on the subject here.

Not everyone has the same definition of what Active Learning means, but you sort of know it when you see it.  We like Active Learning, and we have a tool that supports the idea that students learn some things better when working in teams or small groups.

Here is one suggestion for promoting Active Learning in your class.