Tag: Christie Cavallo


Implementing Psychological Safety: Do Your Students Feel Safe to Learn in Your Course?

Psychological safety is a term that is used widely in simulation, but have you ever considered its significance to your student’s ability to learn in your course?  Psychological safety is the capacity of the members of a team to feel safe to explore, make mistakes, question, and answer questions in any event…including your course.  Without… Read More

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  • Christie Cavallo

Ways to Foster Clinical Reasoning Among Health Science Students

Clinical reasoning is a skill that all healthcare providers must have to achieve good patient outcomes. Teaching students effective and appropriate clinical reasoning abilities should be a goal of all health science education. Expert providers, who are now faculty who are teaching clinical reasoning to students, can have a very difficult challenge in transferring this… Read More

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  • Christie Cavallo

How to Engage Your Students’ Minds Without Losing Yours

Faculty are so busy with didactic, lab, clinical, meetings, research, curriculum changes and their own personal lives that integrating active learning within a class seems like an insurmountable task. Don’t fret! There is hope! During our time together, we will discover how active learning differs from passive learning and just how easy it is to… Read More

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  • Christie Cavallo, EdD, College of Nursing
  • Christie Manasco, PhD, College of Nursing

Are Your Tests Biased? A Guide for Implementing Inclusive Testing Guidelines in Your Assessments

We often mistakenly assume when writing assessments for our students that our learners are “just like us.” We use terminology, phrases, abbreviations, and pronouns that we prefer and know, that often leave our students confused and sometimes wounded. We review our tests by solely looking at statistics, but should we also be looking at linguistics?… Read More

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  • Christie Cavallo, EdD, Instructor, College of Nursing