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Objective To discuss the effect of formative evaluation for flipped classroom of college English teaching. Method We chose 180 clinical medicine undergraduates from a college and divided them equally into experimental class and control class. In the experimental class, the formative evaluation was implemented for the flipped classroom of college English teaching from September 2014 to June 2015. At the same time, the teaching in the control class was carried out according to the basic process of flipped classroom, with no formative evaluation. At the end of the experiment, the students' satisfaction survey, autonomous learning ability and English proficiency test of the two classes were finished. SAS 9.1 software was used for statistical analysis, and t test was used to compare two class measurement information and count data with chi-square test. Result ①Experimental class' satisfaction of formative assessment teaching design for flipped classroom was 94.45%, which was obviously higher than that of the control class (66.66%). The difference was statistically significant (χ2=7.94, P=0.005). (χ2=7.94,P=0.005).②The score at first, fifth dimension and the overall score of independent learning in experimental classes were respectively (55.31± 4.99)、 (53.61±4.93)、 (247.16±22.10), and they were significantly higher than those in the control class (47.18±4.23)、(45.72±4.01)、(225.92±20.78) (t=8.889, P=0.001;t=7.299, P=0.001;t=6.642,P=0.001), and other dimensions' score was also significantly higher than that in comparative classes (P<0.05). ③The pass-ing rate of CET-4, and the number of students from 505 to 544 and more than 545 fraction in the experi-mental class were respectively 79 (87.78%)、19 (21.11%)、10 (11.11%), and they were significantly higher than those in the control class 61(67.78%)、10(11.11%)、0(0). Conclusion Formative assessment can obvi-ously improve the teaching effect of flipped classroom of college English.
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Objective To investigate the protective effects of 3-n-butylphthalide (dl-NBP) on the cognitive dysfunction of chronic cerebral ischemic rats and its mechanism.Methods Old chronic cerebral ischemic rats (15 months) were modelized with ligating bilateral common carotid arteries for three months.Model rats were divided into four groups:sham,model,NBP 30 and 120 mg · kg-1 groups.The former and the latter two groups were administered vegetable oil and NBP for 45 days,respectively.Then,the cognitive function was measured in rats with Morris water maze.Meanwhile,the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD),choline acetyltransferase (ChAT),true choline esterase (TChE),and the malondialdehyde (MDA) levels in brain cortex and hippocampus were detected with biochemical methods.Results During the five days of Morris water maze,the change of escape latency was from (57.7±3.8) s to (30.5±17.1) s in low dose of NBP group,and from (58.4±1.8) s to (28.9±11.3) s in high dose of NBP group as compared with no change from 60s to 60s in model group.Significant differences were found in escape latency between NBP's and model groups(P＜0.05 or 0.01).In spatial exploratory test,the time percentages spent in the platformquadrant were increased obviously in low and high doses of NBP [(26.0±6.9) ％ and (27.3±5.3) ％,respectively,P＜0.05],compared with that of model group.The SOD activity was obviously reduced in cortices of high dose of NBP group [(112.3 ± 7.6) U/mg protein] compared with that (134.6 ± 13.9) U/mg protein of model group (P＜0.01).The MDA contents were significantly reduced in cortices of low and high doses of NBP (2.39±0.31) nmol/mg protein and (1.56±0.19) nmol/mg protein,compared with that of model group (P＜0.01).The MDA contents in hippocampi of low and high doses of NBP [(0.71±0.10) nmol/mg protein and (0.83±0.05) nmol/mg protein] were also decreased significantly,compared with that of model group (P＜0.01).The ChAT level in cortex of high dose of NBP was increased significantly [(1615 ± 100) U/g protein,P＜0.05].The ChAT level in hippocampi of two doses of NBP also increased significantly [(1746±204) U/g protein and (1697± 117) U/g protein,P＜0.05].Conclusions NBP may improve cognition damage of chronic cerebral ischemic rats by ameliorating oxidative stress lesion and enhancing the activity of cholinergic nerve in brain tissue.
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It has been a major topic for the reform on higher medical education and teaching to cultivate medical students' professional information literacy so asto make them equipped with the information competence required for disease control or medical research.In this thesis,the concept of professional information literacy for medical students was introduced,and by analyzing the relationship of information literacy education and medical education modes,countermeasures and methods of cultivating medical students' professional information literacy by combining the reform on medical education and teaching were put forward.
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Introducing the PBL teaching mode in regional anatomy teaching accords with the need of 21centuries social development for the highquality medical science personnel training and the regional anatomy course characteristic, and is beneficial to the students’ changing their study concept and raising their learning ability. It is also an effective way for allaround quality education.