TEACHING PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE PRACTICE AT THAI BINH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY
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https://doi.org/10.18173/2354-1075.2024-0034Keywords:
Probability and Statistics, Realistic Mathematics Education, universities of medicine and pharmacyAbstract
Based on the teaching process in the direction of developing learners’ capability and research results on the Theory of Realistic Mathematics Education, the paper proposes an educational process for using research results in Medicine and Pharmacy to design content for teaching probability and statistics at Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy, including 5 steps: (1) Finding “realistic situations” from the field of medicine and pharmacy that are suitable for students; (2) Organizing activities for learners to perform learning tasks; (3) Formalizing; (4) Applying; (5) Assessing and Self-assessing. The pedagogical experiment with the content "The law of Total probability" was conducted with the Preventive Healthcare major students at Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy in the academic year 2023 - 2024. The results showed that the proposed measure improves interest in learning and links probability and statistics knowledge with professional practice.
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