Academic Questions

Academic detailing: questions and answers.

A program that is gaining interest and momentum in some health care circles is so-called academic detailing. One of the most developed programs is a Pennsylvania initiative officially known as the Independent Drug Information Service (iDiS), in which trained persons meet with physicians throughout the state. The program’s goal is “to improve appropriateness of prescribing by providing unbiased,...

96 Practice - based Doctorates and Questions of Academic

Concept mapping improves academic performance in problem solving questions in biochemistry subject

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of concept mapping (CM) on the academic performance of medical students' in problem-solving as well as in declarative knowledge questions and their perception regarding CM. METHODS The present analytical and questionnaire-based study was carried out at Bahria University Medical and Dental College (BUMDC), Karachi, Pakistan. In this analytical study, stude...

Using Information Extraction to Generate Trigger Questions for Academic Writing Support

Automated question generation approaches have been proposed to support reading comprehension. However, these approaches are not suitable for supporting writing activities. We present a novel approach to generate different forms of trigger questions (directive and facilitative) aimed at supporting deep learning. Useful semantic information from Wikipedia articles is extracted and linked to the k...

Short-answer questions and formula scoring separately enhance dental student academic performance.

In this study, numerical course scores of second-year dental students in four successive classes in an oral and maxillofacial pathology course were compared. While the course content and teaching methods were essentially unchanged throughout the four years, two modest departures from the sole use of multiple-choice format questions were made in the assessment of student achievements. The modifi...