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Students' approaches and attitudes to solving computer presented problems
Author(s) -
Thompson D. G.,
Jolly B.,
Macdonald M. M.,
Cookson J.,
Holman J.,
Keech T.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of computer assisted learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.583
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2729
pISSN - 0266-4909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2729.1987.tb00335.x
Subject(s) - medical diagnosis , mathematics education , computer science , computer assisted instruction , computer assisted learning , problem based learning , teaching method , medical education , psychology , multimedia , medicine , radiology
The ‘diseases oriented’ approach to teaching medicine was used as a basis for computer presented problems to first and second year clinical students. Performance on one of the problems was analysed retrospectively to compare students who had attended innovatory Problem Based Learning (PBL) tutorials with those who experienced only the computer presentations. Results suggest that after such tutorial experience, students reached diagnoses quicker, displayed less rigid history taking, and were more responsive to the information they gathered.