THE USE OF POSTERS IN THE TEACHING OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ON AN UNDERGRADUATE NURSING COURSE

Posters are commonly used at research conferences for communicating in formation and in education as an alternative way of teaching and asses sing students. We report the use of posters as a means of teaching and assessing part of the biological sciences component of an undergradua te nursing course. Tutors felt it was a valuable exercise enabling stu dents to develop a number of skills, alongside the learning and revisi on of knowledge, including working as a team, condensing information a nd word and graphic processing. Students evaluated the exercise as bei ng challenging but rewarding and preferred to be assessed by this meth od than by oral presentations or examinations. Lecturers and guided st udy/tutorials were preferred to posters as teaching methods.