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School Hopes Game Will Nurse Students through Tough Subject

By pete_gallagher

A school in Norway is turning its sights to a computer game for assistance in teaching nursing students how to excel at a tedious, and sometimes difficult to master task, that has no room for error.

As it stands now, University of Stavanger nursing students have three chances to hand in a perfect exam paper on the subject of drug calculations, reports ScienceDaily. Unfortunately, failing the exam is a common practice, with the school stating that between 36 and 39 percent of the students fail the test on their first or second attempts. Other schools report up to 50 percent failure rates.

Atle Løkken, Director of NettOp, the University's web-based study group, thinks it's 'high time' (no pun intended) to 'try something new.' To that end, the school expects to roll out a computer game on the subject next month, which will serve as an additional aid to students.
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 29, 2010 (boomark / email).