Session Format
Poster Session (60 minutes)
Location
Holiday Inn
Second Time and Location
Friday, March 8 from 9:00-9:20 a.m. at the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center
Abstract for the conference program
The focus of a Structural Kinesiology course is a detailed study into the musculoskeletal system and joint action. The course contains a lot of memorization: skeletal muscle origin, insertions, innervations and muscle/joint actions but there is also an applied component for the content. Group study has been incorporated into the course to increase knowledge retention and comprehension however group interaction has been seen to be minimal. Two studies have looked at group construction of skeletal muscle models using clay during class time in assisting with the active learning of muscle origin, insertion and actions (Cruz-Espaillat et al., 2010 & Waters at al., 2011). Both of these studies had good end resuIts. Adding this active learning instructional method into the course could be beneficial in examining the issue of how active group interaction and group discussion of the material can assist in each student’s individual attainment and understanding of the course material. The goal of this study is to have each student in each group participate in the creation of clay skeletal muscles for every muscle in the human body. Objectives include each student successfully identifying origins, insertions, innervations and actions of every muscle at each joint during both group assessment as well as individual testing.
Proposal Track
Research Project
Start Date
3-7-2014 7:00 PM
End Date
3-7-2014 9:00 PM
Recommended Citation
Massey, Kelly, "Clay Modeling of the Musculoskeletal System: Does Active Learning Increase Retention and Comprehension" (2014). Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference (2012-2019). 35.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/stem/2014/2014/35
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Higher Education Commons, Musculoskeletal, Neural, and Ocular Physiology Commons, Musculoskeletal System Commons, Science and Mathematics Education Commons
Clay Modeling of the Musculoskeletal System: Does Active Learning Increase Retention and Comprehension
Holiday Inn
The focus of a Structural Kinesiology course is a detailed study into the musculoskeletal system and joint action. The course contains a lot of memorization: skeletal muscle origin, insertions, innervations and muscle/joint actions but there is also an applied component for the content. Group study has been incorporated into the course to increase knowledge retention and comprehension however group interaction has been seen to be minimal. Two studies have looked at group construction of skeletal muscle models using clay during class time in assisting with the active learning of muscle origin, insertion and actions (Cruz-Espaillat et al., 2010 & Waters at al., 2011). Both of these studies had good end resuIts. Adding this active learning instructional method into the course could be beneficial in examining the issue of how active group interaction and group discussion of the material can assist in each student’s individual attainment and understanding of the course material. The goal of this study is to have each student in each group participate in the creation of clay skeletal muscles for every muscle in the human body. Objectives include each student successfully identifying origins, insertions, innervations and actions of every muscle at each joint during both group assessment as well as individual testing.
