Using an “Escape Room” toolbox approach to enhance pharmacology education
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...There are a number of cases of demonstrated success in conducting educational escape rooms in higher education in the fields of nursing [9], [10], medicine [11], [12], pharmacy [13]–[16], physiotherapy [17], chemistry [18], computer networks [19], and mathemat-...
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...require students to calculate medication dosages [9], [13], analyze lab results [11], perform chemical experiments [18], make use of mathematical software [20], decipher encrypted information and sniff network traffic [19]....
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...Prior works have also reported low success rates [13], [20], sometimes leading to students feeling frustrated that they did not have enough time to complete the activity....
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...students whereas, if the difficulty level is set too high, it can lead to frustration or even anxiety [13]....
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...When addressing students’ perceptions of educational escape rooms, prior studies found that students enjoyed participating and, at the same time, they considered them a valuable learning experience [10], [13], [15]....
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...In ERs with individually grading, a team size up to four or five players is advised (Ho, 2018; Järveläinen & Paavilainen - Mäntymäki, 2019)....
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...…Frenzel, & Cernusca, 2017), physiotherapy (Carrión et al., 2018), chemistry (Dietrich, 2018), physics (Vörös & Sárközi, 2017), computer science (Ho, 2018), mathematics (Arnal et al., 2019), history (Rouse, 2017), and English (López, 2019) or to support the development of generic skills (Craig,…...
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...For pre-set hint cards, developers need to know precisely what players need on which moment (Eukel et al., 2017; Ho, 2018)....
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...Hereby, usually teams play in competition with each other, sometimes they are forced to cooperate at same point (Ho, 2018; Morrell & Ball, 2019)....
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...The study on learning in teams during an ER, concluded that team dynamics were more diverse with time limited (Ho, 2018)....
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...Following Creswell’s (2014) steps for data analysis, the student evaluative criteria forms were read and re-read for repetitive themes in order to systematically describe the learning exercise.[15] All documents were hand-coded: Yellow highlighting, circling of words, and underlined and handwritten words/notes on the evaluative forms were made to aid in the identification of categories and themes....
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...” In the development of this activity, faculty focused on two of the taxonomies of significant learning: (1) foundational knowledge and (2) application.[13] No attempt was made to measure learning how to learn, caring, or the human dimension in this pilot descriptive study....
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...Guided by Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning, researchers observed two of the taxonomies believed to be most relevant to the toolbox learning strategy in pharmacology education: (1) foundational knowledge and (2) application.[13] The activity addressed foundational knowledge for a specific scenario, and students were able to apply the information in cardiovascular medication in a fantasy-based scenario....
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...Fink’s (2003) Taxonomy of Significant Learning was used to guide this study (see Figure 1).[13] The Taxonomy of Significant Learning framework includes: learning how to learn, caring, the human dimension, integration, application, and foundational knowledge....
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...%) in the United States[1](U.S.) with estimates of 83.1 million Millennials compared to 75.4 million Generation Xers....
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...4 million Generation Xers.[1, 2] Faculty are now expected to utilize a variety of teaching methods to address diverse student needs and expectations....
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...The literature reflects that simulation is an effective learning modality to enhance learning.[3, 4] Simulation is gaining popularity as a strategy that fosters a deeper understanding of didactic content....
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