Building Clinical Judgment in Active Learning Classrooms

Active Learning Classroom (ALC) activities that support clinical judgment

These resources present guidance on ways of facilitating clinical judgment within a large active learning classrooms on campus. These resources are organized around four types of learning activities that support:

Active Learning Approaches for Clinical Judgment

Critical Thinking	Discussions	Prior Knowledge	Problem-Solving
Categorizing Grid	Round Robin	Background Knowledge Probe	Case Studies
Content, Form, & Function	Think/Pair/Share	Focused Listing	Send-A-Problem
Defining Features Matrix			Structured Problem-Solving
Pro and Con Grid			Think-Aloud Pair Problem-Solving

Sources/Citations

These activities are taken from the books Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook For College Teachers by Thomas Angelo and K. Patricia Cross, and Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook For College Faculty by Elizabeth F. Barkley, Claire Howell Major, and K. Patricia Cross — present activities you can use to address specific learning outcomes. Each approach includes a basic description, an overview of its outcomes, and steps to guide its use in your course. Each technique in this resource was selected based on three criteria: ease of design, ease of implementation, and time needed to respond to the activity.

• Angelo, Thomas A., and K. Patricia Cross. Classroom Assessment Techniques: a Handbook for College Teachers. Jossey-Bass, 1993. pp. 159-180.
• Barkley, Elizabeth F. et al. Collaborative Learning Techniques A Handbook For College Faculty. Wiley, 2014. pp. 152.