The Development of Veterinary Anatomical Term Learning Media for 2nd Year Students in Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Khon Kaen University

Abstract

Small Animal Anatomy is an important basic science core course in Veterinary Curriculum. The animal that used in this course is dog, a closely companion animal. Students had to study about neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, head and legs according the region of dog's body. Because of its importance, the desirable achievement criterion for this course is more than 80%. But the academic performance of students in this course in the past years never meet the criterion. The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the supplementary media for the veterinary students at Khon Kaen University to self study at least one hour per week for successful in learning anatomical term of the dog's body. The media was a small Thai text book with exercise about the roots of the academic terms, and how to make the prefix and suffix with the root terms. The subjects were 102 Veterinary students enrolled in Small Animal Anatomy course in the first semester of academic year 2010, Khon Kaen University. A pretest – posttest, one group design was used in this study. Data were collected via the laboratory and oral tests of academical term. The results showed that the posttest mean scores of both laboratory exam (▪= 27.74, SD = 1.18) and oral exam (▪= 8.34, SD = 0.10) were higher than the pretest mean scores at .05 level of significance, and able to meet the criterion of the course (average lab score was 92.46%, average oral score was 83.40%). So, this learning media had the potential to promote better understanding of the anatomical terminology.