Оstapovych N. Меthods of Teaching Medical and Biological Physics by Means of a Didactic Game

The thesis is aimed at the problem of elaboration of the methods of teaching students in medical and biological physics by means of the gaming teaching technologies, based on the demands of the modern professional medical education. The psychological, pedagogical and methodical foundations of usage of the gaming educational technologies are taken into consideration, different approaches to classifications of didactic games as well as opportunities of their use in teaching students medical and biological physics have been analyzed. The learning potential of game teaching technologies and general principles of an interactive learning were outlined. The author's interpretation of the definition of a didactic game is formulated as an educational technology founded on the basic psychological and pedagogical invariants of the game activity, which has a clearly defined didactic aim and process strategy of achieving an expected result. The classification of game technologies was elaborated, according to their dominating didactic aim, process strategy, level of implementation (macrotechnologies, mezzotechnologies, microtechnologies); type of a game environment (curricular, extracurricular). Traditional methods of teaching medical and biological physics as well as didactic potential of game technologies in order to improve the efficiency of the teaching and educational process by means of didactic games have been also analyzed. The didactic model of teaching medical and biological physics with the use of a didactic game has been elaborated, the methods of conducting and evaluation of the laboratory tasks in medical and biological physics with the use of didactic games and implementation of didactic games at the lectures, seminars and practical classes in medical and biological physics as well as in the extracurricular activities have been investigated. The teaching and methodical complex set (tasks, scenarios, rules, criteria of evaluation) for the use of didactic games in the course "Medical and Biological Physics" was created. The pedagogical experiment has been conducted, which included the stating, searching, forming and corrective stages. For this aim the selection and analysis of criteria for evaluation of the effectiveness by the use of didactic games in teaching medical and biological physics was completed.