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Steven Viscido <steven@tbone.biol.sc.edu> wrote:


>Hmmm... just exactly what does this "practical" involve. I'm generally
>used to this term being used to denote a "laboratory practical
>examination", which generally means the students have some sort of
>in-lab, hands-on type exam, with actual specimens/samples/whatever, as
>opposed to a regular written test (for instance, in Organic Chem, I
>had to come up with a certain product at a certain minimum yield to
>pass the exam, or in anatomy lab, which I've taught many times, we put
>out dissected animals with pins in various organs/tissues and ask the
>students to name them or give their function or etc). Is this the sort
>of thing you're talking about (i.e. a hands-on exam for 100 people)?
>Or are you talking about just some hands-on experience similar to a
>field trip?

Sorry, a bit of confusion here. By 'practical' I mean a session of
practical work: when the students all get together in a lab and do
some exercise which they then write up. Maybe you'd call this a lab; I
can't think of any other words people use here.

R
Rob Knell
Dept. Zoology, University of the Witwatersrand, Jo'burg.