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Peer reviewedFrankel, Richard M. – Optometric Education, 1992
Optometry educators can be assisted in making complex concepts understandable to students by using rhetorical devices such as metaphors, similes, analogies, parables, and allegories. As an example, the difficulties in communicating everyday but complex clinical concepts regarding inflammatory disorders are discussed and use of rhetorical devices…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedKurtz, Daniel – Optometric Education, 1999
The Perfect Eye model simplifies solutions to a wide variety of optometry instructional problems by facilitating student understanding of the interaction among lenses, objects, accommodation, and ametropia. The model is based on the premise that inside every eye is a perfect (emmetropic) eye, and that the physiological eye is a combination of the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Ametropia, Anatomy, Concept Formation
