The progress test as a structuring initiative for programmatic assessment.

Background: The Progress Test is an individual assessment applied to all students at the same time and on a regular basis. The test was structured in the medical undergraduate education of a conglomerate of schools to structure a programmatic assessment integrated into teaching. This paper presents the results of four serial applications of the progress test and the feedback method to students.

Development of an online nursing management course: successful experience between Brazil and Portugal.

Objective To describe the experience of planning and developing online refresher courses in nursing management for nurses in the contexts of Brazil and Portugal. Method The instructional design was based on meaningful learning theory, andragogy, and dialectical methodology, so it valued interaction between the actors, emphasizing the scenarios of practice and applying the concepts covered. The course structure is divided into nine theoretical units, four case studies, and an essay exam.

Online Training Assessment For Primary Care Professionals Of The City Of São Paulo.

Students who participate in courses and training offered in distance mode receive positive results in learning evaluations. Most studies show improvement in knowledge in pre- and post- course comparisons; however, there are still few evaluations of long-term knowledge retention. This study compares the learning scores of online training for health professionals in three different times: before training, immediately after, and 180 days later.

[Development of educational hypermedia to teach an arterial blood pressure measurement procedure].

Arterial blood pressure measurement is an essential conduct to evaluate the condition of the cardiovascular system. Digital teaching environment is a powerful tool for the teaching-learning process, because it adds meaning and concreteness to the content to be learned, and it can be useful to instruct this procedure. The objective of this study was to create educational hypermedia for teaching arterial blood pressure measurement, and to describe the steps of that creation process.