Diagnostic Test for Pharmacy Students as a Successful Learning and Teaching Tool

A recurring problem faced by any lecturer teaching first year mathematics to non mathematicians is deciding where to start and what background knowledge can be assumed. Diagnostic testing can help to: identify students struggling; find an appropriate lecture level; produce useful feedback to students. A series of six lectures covering basic mathematics was timetabled for all first year students to focus on areas of identified weakness amd important in futher pharmacy study...