Student perceptions of scientific writing in pharmacology: Student generation of collaborative rubrics to score a social pharmacology writing project.

Scholarly writing is an important skill in all fields of study. Despite a strong focus on writing in many courses, faculty and students have disparate expectations related to scholarly writing. Herein, a classroom exercise is presented in which students were asked to develop a rubric that would be used to evaluate their summative writing assessment.

Modified Definitional Grading: A Pilot Study.

Background: Grades often are an unreliable means of determining content mastery due to poor grading systems and grade inflation. The use of a modified definitional grading system may be beneficial for assessing mastery of content in competency-based education in didactic nursing courses.

Method: This mixed-methods pilot study examined grade-related data and survey results.

From Sully to Nightingale: Critical Thinking Through Esthetic Learning.

Background: Nursing faculty continually seek new teaching strategies to promote prelicensure nursing students' critical thinking. Students construct new knowledge through experience. Esthetic learning methodologies involve gaining knowledge and insight through emotive, firsthand experiences.