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Evaluation of Power Point Presentation Reflection Among Students of Applied Medical Sciences College, Najran University
Author(s) -
MOKHTAR AHMED ELSIR,
ELMUSTAFA SHAMAIL DAFALLA ABUIDREIS
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.30.1_supplement.785.20
Subject(s) - power point , presentation (obstetrics) , point (geometry) , medical education , psychology , preference , mathematics education , medicine , mathematics , radiology , statistics , geometry
Power Point and Slideshow lectures and presentations are a popular teaching method in undergraduate medical and paramedical teaching and education. PowerPoint software offers a tremendous number of options for personalizing slides to provide an opportunity to enhance a presentation. The rise of the slide has generated considerable debate, with some people concerned that PowerPoint diminishes the potential of critical thinking by the audience, and others encouraging innovative graphic design as assisting the transmission of information. Objectives To assess the student's satisfaction regarding slideshow and power point based lectures and their perspective on teaching methods and evaluate preference and effectiveness in learning. Methods This is a descriptive cross‐sectional study was carried out among the undergraduate applied medical sciences (Physiotherapy and Radiology) students of Najran University participated voluntarily, during the period from Nov.2014 to Oct.2015; collected data analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS Program). Results Showed that 52.63% of students believe that the most distracted factor in power point presentation is the large number of presenting slides 42.11% of the students considered that more than one topic that's presented in the presented slides, and slides color and themes comes in the lowest distracting factors considered 5.26% of the students show that. Regarding the suitable numbers of the slides in 50 mints, 47.37% said 10–20 slides, 36.84% said 30–40 slides and 15.79% said 20–30 slides. About most boring and dull factors 63.16% of students in this study show response to the large number of presented slides, 26.32% large number of bullets and 10.53% of them show that fast presentation. Also 52.63% suggested six bullets are quite enough, three bullets were suggested by 21.05%, nine bullets by15.79% and at last just 10.53% of students mentioned twelve bullets. Conclusion Most of the students believed that Power Point presentations have a lot of disadvantage which can make it deadly dull. At last the integrated (PowerPoint and chalkboard) based method of teaching was found more suitable tool of teaching and learning than PowerPoint or chalkboard alone.