The effects of the quantitative evaluation of the teaching objective in the anatomy classroom to improve the international students' academic ability

Abstract

Objective To investigate the effect of anatomic quantitative target evaluation of classroom teaching on students' professional knowledge learning ability. Methods Twenty-five international students of 6-year program of grade 2013 were chosen as the experimental group, while twenty-seven Chinese students coming from the same class of grade 2013 and fifteen international students of 6-year program of grade 2012 were chosen as two control groups; quantitative and non-quantitative evaluation were implemented respectively by classroom questions and answers; teaching effects were evaluated by scales in the separation of teaching and examination, by records of answers for in-class questions and by questionnaire survey; SPSS 20.0 was used to make statistical analysis, one-way ANOVA and Kruskal Wallis test to com-pare the scores of three groups of students, P<0.05 indicates statistic significance. Results Compared with control groups, the accuracy of answers for class questions were improved greatly in the experimental group(2/3~ 3/4)vs.(1/2)and(2/3~3/4)vs.(1/2)and the average test scores(80.62±5.93)vs.(79.62±5.93)and(80.62± 5.93)vs.(70.16±6.36)of the experimental group students were higher than control groups, the difference was statistically significant between the control group and the control group(P=0.045). Conclusions Quantitative evaluation of teaching objectives in anatomy class can improve the learning attitude of foreign students and enhance their academic ability. Key words: International students; Anatomy; Bilingual teaching; Teaching objective; Learning ability