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Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, and Medical Students’ Needs for Learning and Using Statistics
Much has been written on the learning needs of dyslexic and dyscalculic students in primary and early secondary education. However, it is not clear that the necessary disability support staff and specialist literature are available to ensure that these needs are being adequately met within the conte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779625/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20165516 http://dx.doi.org/10.3885/meo.2009.F0000213 |
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description | Much has been written on the learning needs of dyslexic and dyscalculic students in primary and early secondary education. However, it is not clear that the necessary disability support staff and specialist literature are available to ensure that these needs are being adequately met within the context of learning statistics and general quantitative skills in the self-directed learning environments encountered in higher education. This commentary draws attention to dyslexia and dyscalculia as two potentially unrecognized conditions among undergraduate medical students and in turn, highlights key developments from recent literature in the diagnosis of these conditions. With a view to assisting medical educators meet the needs of dyscalculic learners and the more varied needs of dyslexic learners, a comprehensive list of suggestions is provided as to how learning resources can be designed from the outset to be more inclusive. A hitherto neglected area for future research is also identified through a call for a thorough investigation of the meaning of statistical literacy within the context of the undergraduate medical curriculum. |
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spelling | pubmed-27796252010-01-14 Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, and Medical Students’ Needs for Learning and Using Statistics MacDougall, Margaret Med Educ Online Feature Article Much has been written on the learning needs of dyslexic and dyscalculic students in primary and early secondary education. However, it is not clear that the necessary disability support staff and specialist literature are available to ensure that these needs are being adequately met within the context of learning statistics and general quantitative skills in the self-directed learning environments encountered in higher education. This commentary draws attention to dyslexia and dyscalculia as two potentially unrecognized conditions among undergraduate medical students and in turn, highlights key developments from recent literature in the diagnosis of these conditions. With a view to assisting medical educators meet the needs of dyscalculic learners and the more varied needs of dyslexic learners, a comprehensive list of suggestions is provided as to how learning resources can be designed from the outset to be more inclusive. A hitherto neglected area for future research is also identified through a call for a thorough investigation of the meaning of statistical literacy within the context of the undergraduate medical curriculum. Medical Education Online 2009-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2779625/ /pubmed/20165516 http://dx.doi.org/10.3885/meo.2009.F0000213 Text en © 2009 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Material in Medical Education Online is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. |
spellingShingle | Feature Article MacDougall, Margaret Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, and Medical Students’ Needs for Learning and Using Statistics |
title | Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, and Medical Students’ Needs for Learning and Using Statistics |
title_full | Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, and Medical Students’ Needs for Learning and Using Statistics |
title_fullStr | Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, and Medical Students’ Needs for Learning and Using Statistics |
title_full_unstemmed | Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, and Medical Students’ Needs for Learning and Using Statistics |
title_short | Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, and Medical Students’ Needs for Learning and Using Statistics |
title_sort | dyscalculia, dyslexia, and medical students’ needs for learning and using statistics |
topic | Feature Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779625/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20165516 http://dx.doi.org/10.3885/meo.2009.F0000213 |
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