The teaching of any physics/instrumentation-based course to health science students carries its own rewards and challenges.
Despite the recognized challenges, Bioinstrumentation has an established track record of positive student outcomes which are attributed to the facts that course teaching and assessment strategies cater for a range of student learning styles, are delivered in a relevant health context, and build upon pedagogical approaches that have proven successful for the teaching of physical science topics to similar student cohorts.
These attributions have ultimately lead to a multifaceted, authentic assessment approach with an emphasis on practical skill development and delivery of vocation-related instrumented projects, with project delivery facilitated by staircased skill development.
Assessment-forlearning items employed within Bioinstrumentation are summarized
in Table 1.