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Human Bones: Matching Quiz

by Dyann Schmidel

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Reviewed:	Jul 29, 2002 by Biology Editorial Board
Overview:	The Human Bones Quiz is a timed, self-testing quiz that allows students to match anatomical terms for bones with the bone's common name. This quiz is part of a larger database of quizes designed for elementary and secondary education. It may be of some use to college students with little scientfic background. A different quiz presents itself each time, albeit with a limited selection of bones.
Learning Goals:	The major learning goal is to quickly match names of bones with a clue to its location or function.
Target Student Population:	Primary target is Middle Schoolers and High Schoolers. It may be of value to the college student for a fun review.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:	None, other than a basic awareness of your body and scientific names for bones.
Type of Material:	Interactive lesson/review/quiz
Recommended Uses:	The quizes provide a limited review of anatomical terms for bones. It could possibly be used in class or as course supplementle material.
Technical Requirements:	Flash

Evaluation and Observation

Content Quality

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Strengths:	The quiz provides a straight forward association between clue and matching bone. The timing element of the matching presents a challenge to students and a "fun" aspect that especially younger students may enjoy. This also provides students with a way to evaluate their improvement. The quiz forces the student to make choices and immediately provides feedback.
Concerns:	A limited number of bones presented in the quizzes - the quiz focuses on the appendiges and jaw bones, it lacks other skull bones and vertebrae, among others. Each quiz presents only 8 matches.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:	Quick, easy and to the point. This gives instructor flexibility on how to use it. The timed feature at the end of the quiz is a fun reward and immediately challenges the student to do better.
Concerns:	This site is designed as a self-testing and review tool, not a teaching tool per se. Simply associates anatomical terms with common description - does not give students much context of the mechanical function of the bones or any concept of the origin of the anatomical term. The quiz tests only the ability to recognize a limited number of anatomical terms.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:	Very striaght forward and easy to use.
Concerns:	None.

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