Teaching

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Enhancing literacy development through AAC technologies.

There is a critical need to understand teaching and technology supports that enable students who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems to engage in meaningful literacy experiences and foster conventional literacy skills. To thrive ...
Janet M Sturm, Karen Erickson, David E Yoder (Assist Technol, 2002SUMMER)
enhancing-literacy-development-aac-technologies.asp

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The role of interactive training skills courses in medical education at the Ankara University School of Medicine.

BACKGROUND: The Department of Medical Education at Ankara University School of Medicine offered a teaching program for their physician educators. One hundred and fifty professors from different disciplines attended this 5-day training course. ...
Ferda Ozyurda, Fulya Dökmeci, Ozden Palaoglu, Berna Arda (Teach Learn Med, 2002SUMMER)
role-interactive-training-skills-courses-medical-education-ankara.asp

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1st- and 2nd-year medical student exposure to emergency medicine.

BACKGROUND: Medical societies in emergency medicine (EM) have recommended teaching EM topics in the preclinical years of medical school. However, the magnitude of integrating an EM curriculum into the 1st and 2nd year of medical school is unknown. ...
Leslie S Zun (Teach Learn Med, 2002SUMMER)
st-nd-year-medical-student-exposure-emergency-medicine.asp

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The effects of cumulative practice on mathematics problem solving.

This study compared three different methods of teaching five basic algebra rules to college students. All methods used the same procedures to teach the rules and included four 50-question review sessions interspersed among the training of the individual ...
Kristin H Mayfield, Philip N Chase (J Appl Behav Anal, 2002SUMMER)
effects-cumulative-practice-mathematics-problem-solving.asp

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Teaching delivery of bad news using experiential sessions with standardized patients.

BACKGROUND: Delivering bad news is a difficult task that is important to address in medical education. PURPOSE: This study evaluated the impact of an experiential educational intervention using multiple standardized patient scenarios on medical students ...
Marcy E Rosenbaum, Clarence Kreiter (Teach Learn Med, 2002SUMMER)
teaching-delivery-bad-news-experiential-sessions-standardized-patients.asp

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Using differences between perceptions of importance and competence to identify teaching needs of primary care preceptors.

BACKGROUND: An important goal of a comprehensive faculty development plan is to improve teaching. This is especially important for clinical preceptors. PURPOSE: This study used a novel approach to assessing the teaching needs of preceptors, an essential ...
Mark Quirk, Sarah Stone, Alan Chuman, Sarah Devaney-ONeil, Kathleen Mazor, Susan Starr, Daniel Lasser (Teach Learn Med, 2002SUMMER)
differences-perceptions-importance-competence-identify-teaching-needs.asp

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Perceptions of autonomy support, parent attachment, competence and self-worth as predictors of motivational orientation and academic achievement: an examination of sixth- and ninth-grade regular education students.

This project examined the hypothesis that students perceptions of teacher autonomy support, parent attachment, competence, and self-worth would predict motivational orientation and achievement test performance. Participants were 135 sixth-grade and 91 ...
Eugene H Wong, Dudley J Wiest, Lisa B Cusick (Adolescence, 2002SUMMER)
perceptions-autonomy-support-parent-attachment-competence-self-worth.asp

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Comparison of an aggregate scoring method with a consensus scoring method in a measure of clinical reasoning capacity.

BACKGROUND: Diversity of clinical reasoning paths of thought among experts is well known. Nevertheless, in written clinical reasoning assessment, the common practice is to ask experts to reach a consensus on each item and to assess students on a unique ...
Bernard Charlin, Martin Desaulniers, Robert Gagnon, Daniel Blouin, Cees van der Vleuten (Teach Learn Med, 2002SUMMER)
comparison-aggregate-scoring-method-consensus-scoring-method-measure.asp

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An interactive, student-centered approach to teaching large-group sessions in veterinary clinical pathology.

INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to describe and evaluate an interactive, student-centered approach to teaching large-group sessions in Veterinary Clinical Pathology. The strategy was designed to operate in the place of expository lectures and ...
Paul J Canfield (J Vet Med Educ, 2002SUMMER)
interactive-student-centered-approach-teaching-large-group-sessions.asp

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Physical therapist student interest in full-time faculty positions.

A strong demand exists for allied health faculty in institutions of higher education. This study focused on physical therapists for the purposes of: 1) determining student physical therapist interest in full-time faculty positions at some point in their ...
Joyce L Mac Kinnon, R Dennis Leighton (J Allied Health, 2002SUMMER)
physical-therapist-student-interest-full-time-faculty-positions.asp