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Brown, Stephen; White, Sue; Power, Nicola – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Academic content common to health science programs is often taught to a mixed group of students; however, content assessment may be consistent for each discipline. This study used a retrospective cluster analysis on such a group, first to identify high and low achieving students, and second, to determine the distribution of students within…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Anatomy, Physiology, Health Sciences
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Brown, S. J.; White, S.; Power, N. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2017
Using an educational data mining approach, first-year academic achievement of undergraduate nursing students, which included two compulsory courses in introductory human anatomy and physiology, was compared with achievement in a final semester course that transitioned students into the workplace. We hypothesized that students could be grouped…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Anatomy, Nursing Education, Physiology
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Hamilton, Kirk L.; Butt, A. Grant – Advances in Physiology Education, 2013
The Na[superscript +]-glucose cotransporter is a key transport protein that is responsible for absorbing Na[superscript +] and glucose from the luminal contents of the small intestine and reabsorption by the proximal straight tubule of the nephron. Robert K. Crane originally described the cellular model of absorption of Na[superscript +] and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Metabolism, Human Body