1. A theoretical framework for learning diagnostic competences with simulations.- 2. Diagnosing primary school children’s mathematical competences and misconceptions based on their written work.- 3. Diagnosing mathematical argumentation skills in secondary school based on videos of students attempting to construct proofs.- 4. Diagnosing 6th graders´ understanding of decimal fractions – A role-play-based simulation for mathematics teacher students of diagnostic interviews featuring simulated teacher-student interactions.- 5. Diagnosing the instructional quality of biology lessons based on staged-videos.- 6. Diagnosing secondary school students´ scientific reasoning skills in physics and biology – A video-based simulation for pre-service teachers.- 7. Diagnosing students’ behavioral, developmental and learning disorders based on records of behavior and performance.- 8. Facilitating Medical History Taking through Live and Computer Simulations.- 9. Learning collaborativeDiagnosing in Medical Education – Diagnosing a Patient’s Disease in Collaboration with a Simulated Radiologist.- 10. Using simulations to facilitate professional competences: promising trajectories for future research.  

This open access book presents 8 novel approaches to measure and improve diagnostic competences with simulation. The book compares the effects of interventions on these diagnostic competences in both teacher and medical education. It includes analyses showing that important aspects of diagnostic competences and effects of instructional interventions aiming to facilitate them are comparable for teachers and doctors.Through closely analyzing projects from medical education, mathematics education, biology education, and psychology, the reader is presented with multiple options for interventions that may be used in each of the subject areas and the improvements in diagnostic skills that could be expected from each simulation.The book concludes with an outline of promising future research on the use of simulations to facilitate professional competences in higher education in general, and for the advancement of diagnostic competencies in particular.

This book is open access which means that you have free and unlimited access Offers an interdisciplinary framework for improving diagnostic skills Contains concrete examples of using simulations in higher education Conceptualizes a framework for research on simulations

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