Wyoming’s Instructional Facilitator Program

Assessing Program Visualization Systems as Instructional Aids

Recently, program visualization systems have received much attention as learning tools and as software understanding aids. How to evaluate these systems, however, is an open and unexplored area. In order to determine what factors may be important, we conducted an exploratory study using XTango, an algorithm animation system. First, we asked professors to complete surveys intended to solicit inf...

Facilitating Facilitators: Enhancing PBL through a Structured Facilitator Development Program

An evaluation of the California Instructional School Garden Program.

OBJECTIVE California Assembly Bill 1535 awarded $US 15 million to California public schools to promote, develop and sustain instructional school gardens through the California Instructional School Garden Program (CISGP). The present study was designed to assess the effectiveness of the CISGP at assisting schools in implementing, maintaining and sustaining an academic school garden programme, de...

Pancreatic Cancer Search Facilitator

Newly diagnosed Pancreatic Cancer Patients are naturally curious about their disease. Information can help them deal with the trauma of their diagnosis and help them make informed decisions about their course of treatments and options. Unfortunately, the web can be a vast and overwhelming challenge, especially for someone who is already feeling overwhelmed and alone due to a harsh and sobering ...

Effectiveness of Periodontal Flap Surgery Multimedia Instructional Program Compared to Standard Lecture

Background and Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the knowledge and skill performance obtained by dental students exposed to two different instructional modalities for periodontal flap surgery: a Computer-Assisted Learning (CAL) multimedia software program and traditional lecture. Materials and Methods: In this experimental study, fifty volunteer fourth-year dental students with simil...