DESIGN OF A LEARNING UNIT IN BIOSTATISTICS
Keywords:
teaching, biostatistics, instructional designAbstract
Biostatistics has an important role in the education of medical and health professionals because it provides the necessary knowledge and skills to analyze biomedical data and critically read medical literature, which are key skills for practicing evidence-based medicine. Students encounter difficulties in learning this discipline related to complex calculations, formulas, limited time, lack of detailed explanations in online resources, weak conceptual foundations, understanding of rules and procedures. To address these difficulties, adapted learning and teaching strategies are recommended to improve students' skills in understanding and solving biostatistics problems. The aim of this paper is to present a design for teaching basic concepts of biostatistics that combines technologies and strategies in a manner tailored to student characteristics. As an example of basic concepts in the presented lesson unit, variables, data and scales for describing and measuring in statistics are selected. The educational goal was analyzed and lesson objectives were set. The didactic characteristics of the target group of students in master's programs in the fields of "Health Care" and "Public Health" were analyzed and conclusions were drawn about the design of the training. Some recommendations for developing interactive learning content are given. An example implementation of the lesson unit in the electronic learning content management system Moodle is presented. Careful design of course units, resulting from preliminary analyses, can make learning in traditionally difficult disciplines such as biostatistics for medical and health professionals not only enjoyable and easy, but also efficient and successful.
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