IJCRR - 7(8), April, 2015
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EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPUTER AIDED TEACHING, AS COMPARED TO TRADITIONAL BOARD TEACHING, AMONG MEDICAL UNDERGRADUATES OF UDAIPUR
Author: Jarinabanu T., K. Prabhakaran
Category: Healthcare
Abstract:Introduction: Even though it is a well known fact that computer aided teaching methods like power point presentations are far more advanced, popular and superior to traditional teaching methods like board teaching, there is always a constant debate among medical teachers and students about the best method for medical undergraduates. So an attempt has been made to find out the student's perspective, the popular teaching methods among them, the reasons for the popularity, the students view of advantages and disadvantages of board and computer aided teaching through a student feedback. Aims and Objectives: To compare the effectiveness of computer aided teaching with board teaching through a student feedback, to find out the advantages, disadvantages of computer aided teaching and board teaching through a student's perspective and finally to find out the student's preference of best teaching tool for them. Materials and Methods: 98 medical undergraduate students belonging to first year MBBS course of GMCH, Udaipur formed the subjects for the current study. All the students were given a standard MEU questionnaire used for microteaching for collecting their feedbacks. Results: 95.92% preferred computer aided teaching method like power point presentation for understanding difficult concepts/ topic where as only 4 students that is 4.08% of students preferred board teaching. 97 students out of 98 that is, 98.98% of students mentioned that, maximum interest was generated in the topic, when both power point presentation and board teaching methods were combined together. 83 students out of 98 students that is, 84.69% preferred a combined teaching method for regular anatomy lectures.
Keywords: Computer aided teaching, Power point presentation, Board teaching
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INTRODUCTION
Even though it is a well known fact that computer aided teaching methods like power point presentations are far more advanced1,2, popular and superior to traditional teaching methods like board teaching, there is always a constant debate among medical teachers and students about the best method for medical undergraduates. All standard Medical education technology workshops1,2 world over insist on computer aided teaching methods rather than board teaching method because of its greater advantages and fewer limitations. In the recent times computer aided teaching has become a necessary tool for teaching medical undergraduates, especially due to decreased course period for MBBS. Though board teaching has certain advantages for small groups, the computer aided (like PowerPoint) teaching has a lot more advantages for both small groups as well as larger group teaching, mainly because of its speedy coverage of topics, concept building methods, striking and actual depiction of clinical pictures, Real Gross Anatomy pictures, Animations like showing mechanism of Drug action and so on. After all, it is evolution of teaching methods which has finally given rise to computer Aided teaching methods starting from black board. In this study we have tried to compare the effectiveness of board teaching and computer aided teaching in a class room setup for medical undergraduates.
An attempt has been made to find out the student’s perspective, the popular teaching methods among them, the reasons for the popularity, the students view of advantages and disadvantages of board and computer aided teaching through a student feedback. AIMS AND
OBJECTIVES
1. To compare the effectiveness of computer aided teaching with board teaching through a student feedback.
2. To find out the advantages and disadvantages of computer aided teaching and board teaching through a student’s perspective.
3. To find out the student’s preference of best teaching tool for them.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
98 medical undergraduate students belonging to first year MBBS course of GMCH, Udaipur formed the subjects for the current study. All the students were given a standard MEU questionnaire used for microteaching for collecting their feedbacks, once during their first year. Permission from Human ethics committee was taken for conducting the study. The students were taught some topics using board alone, some topics with Computer Aided tools like PowerPoint and some topics using both board as well as power point. The questionnaire dealt with various issues like advantages and disadvantages of board teaching, computer aided teaching, combined board and computer aided teaching, reasons for the same. It also dealt with popularity of the any single or combined teaching methods and the reasons for the same. It also dealt with teaching method/s which generated greater interest in the subject or topic taught. The questionnaire also contained questions pertaining to teaching methods which made them easier to understand and comprehend difficult concepts. The study design is of descriptive comparative type. The feedback questionnaire was collected from all the students during lecture hours and the percentage of responses calculated.
DISCUSSION
In the current study we found that 94 out of 98 students that is, 95.92% preferred computer aided teaching method like power point presentation for understanding difficult concepts/topic where as only 4 students that is 4.08% of students preferred board teaching (Table no.1). Supporting our result a study undertaken in people’s medical sciences state that, majority of students, understand and retain better if taught by power point,3 stressing the importance of power point in the current scenario. This proves that computer aided teaching that is power point presentation is more effective than board teaching in making students understand difficult concepts/topic 97 students out of 98 that is, 98.98% of students mentioned that, maximum interest was generated in the topic, when both power point presentation and board teaching methods were combined together. Only 1.02% of students mentioned that computer teaching alone generated interest in the topic and 0% for board teaching alone for generating interest (Table no.2) there by emphasizing that a combined teaching method to be more interesting. 83 students out of 98 students that is, 84.69% preferred a combined teaching method for regular anatomy lectures, whereas 9 students that is 9.18% preferred computer teaching alone and only 6 students that is 6.12% preferred board alone (Table. 3). An earlier study4 done in King George medical university showed that 70.37% of students preferred a combination of power point presentation and traditional methods supporting our outcome. This proves that the best teaching tool according to students is a combination of power point presentation and board teaching. This is also supported by yet another study undertaken in Dehradun5 .
CONCLUSION
1. Computer aided teaching that is power point presentation is more effective than board teaching in making students understand difficult concepts/topic.
2. Maximum interest was generated in the topic, when both power point presentation and board teaching methods were combined together.
3. The best teaching tool according to students is a combination of power point presentation and board teaching.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Authors acknowledge the immense help received from the scholars whose articles are cited and included in references of this manuscript. The authors are also grateful to Authors/editors/publishers of all those articles, journals and books from where the literature for this article has been reviewed and discussed.
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