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Best Practices
Games
Educational games are ideal for engaging students with course content. Most
students think they are fun and very helpful - though you may find some students
don't actually play the games but prefer to just quiz each other using the
questions you provide. Faculty in the School of Nursing say that students
find the games so helpful for studying, they complain bitterly when units
don't have corresponding games!
Games can test deeper levels of understanding than just knowledge repetition. Be
sure your questions require some application or synthesis. Examples:
- A"Family Feud" type of game can ask teams of students to list
assessment techniques for a patient complaining of a dry cough.
- In matching games (Memory, Bingo, Crosswords), instead of asking students
to match a term and a definition, give them a vital statistic and ask them
to match it with the condition(s) it indicates. Change things up by including "Normal" as
one of the conditions.
- In trivia games, ask NCLEX-type questions that require students to apply
knowledge, not just recite information.
General tips
- The quality of your game depends primarily on the quality of
your questions.
- Quiz games like Jeopardy are best for interaction and self-assessment.
They don’t work well for content delivery or final assessment.
- Games be played with or without a computer. You might use your computer
to prepare the game (e.g., printing out quiz cards) but have students play
with paper during a face-to-face class.
Where to get questions for quiz games
- Make them up
- Use NCLEX questions provided with textbooks.
- Use test bank questions from textbooks or the publisher's web site
- Chapter review questions in the textbook
- Look online or contact colleagues
Examples and templates
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