Medical student attendance at lectures

“ But they won ’ t come to lectures ... ” The impact of audio recorded lectures on student experience and attendance

The move to increasingly flexible platforms for student learning and experience through provision of online lecture recordings is often interpreted by educators as students viewing attendance at lectures as optional. The trend toward the use of this technology is often met with resistance from some academic staff who argue that student attendance will decline. This study aimed to explore studen...

Monitoring Student Attendance Using Dashboard

Research has shown that student attendance has positive relationship with academic achievement. However, the manual process of taking attendance using paper does not allow the teacher to easily view and monitor individual attendance. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the use of dashboard in managing and monitoring student attendance. By using the attendance dashboard, teacher can easily t...

Comparing medical student opinions regarding teaching based on lectures and problem-based learning in large groups

Introduction: Problem-based learning (PBL) is possibly one of the most innovative methods in medical education. In this training method, small groups of students work on a subject and learn the educational goals which include basic and clinical sciences. The aim of this study was comparing students’ and facilitators’ satisfaction in teaching pediatric course materials by two methods...

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Evaluation of large-group lectures in medicine – development of the SETMED-L (Student Evaluation of Teaching in MEDical Lectures) questionnaire

BACKGROUND The seven categories of the Stanford Faculty Development Program (SFDP) represent a framework for planning and assessing medical teaching. Nevertheless, so far there is no specific evaluation tool for large-group lectures that is based on these categories. This paper reports the development and psychometric validation of a short German evaluation tool for large-group lectures in medi...