Learning to Diagnose with Simulations Examples from Teacher Education and Medical Education

• Other Authors: Fischer, Frank (Editor), Opitz, Ansgar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2022
• Subjects: Educational psychology; Teaching of a specific subject; Teacher training; Industrial or vocational training; Open Access; Learning diagnostic competences with simulations; Diagnosing primary school children's mathematical competences; Mathematical argumentation skills in secondary school; Instructional quality of biology lessons; Students' behavioral, developmental and learning disorders
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This open access book presents 8 novel approaches to measure and improve diagnostic competences with simulation. The book compares the effects of interventions on these diagnostic competences in both teacher and medical education. It includes analyses showing that important aspects of diagnostic competences and effects of instructional interventions aiming to facilitate them are comparable for teachers and doctors. Through closely analyzing projects from medical education, mathematics education, biology education, and psychology, the reader is presented with multiple options for interventions that may be used in each of the subject areas and the improvements in diagnostic skills that could be expected from each simulation. The book concludes with an outline of promising future research on the use of simulations to facilitate professional competences in higher education in general, and for the advancement of diagnostic competencies in particular. This is an open access book.