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A comparison of teaching by script and slides with audiotape and slides
Author(s) -
PARBROOK EVELYN O.,
PARBROOK G. D.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1982.tb01232.x
Subject(s) - medical education , interim , test (biology) , set (abstract data type) , medicine , psychology , ranking (information retrieval) , recall , teaching method , mathematics education , computer science , history , paleontology , archaeology , machine learning , cognitive psychology , biology , programming language
Summary A comparison was made of the teaching of physics and clinical measurement to postgraduate anaesthetists using a set of twenty audiotape slide programmes and the corresponding scripts of the tape with the slides. Twenty‐four anaesthetists participated in a crossover design trial. Assessment by pre and post‐test MCQs showed a significant increase in knowledge from 37.5% to 75.9% in the script and slide group and from 38.3% to 71.7% in the audiotape slide group. An interim programme questionnaire assessing immediate recall of knowledge gave figures of 93.6% and 92.1% for the two groups respectively. The results indicated that the two teaching techniques were equally effective and analysis showed that student ranking was maintained. An opinion questionnaire revealed that the two techniques were equally acceptable to the students. As in previous studies the anaesthetists preferred the audiovisual teaching to formal lectures and the teaching assessments were of special value in indicating parts of the programme content which had been less effectively taught and required upgrading.