OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Within otolaryngology residency training, the annual Otolaryngology Training Examination (OTE) is the primary method used to assess, quantify, and compare the factual knowledge acquired by each resident. The objective of this study was to develop a more frequent method for tracking of factual knowledge to prevent educational delay. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis of ...

BACKGROUND Didactic lecture is the oldest and most commonly used method of teaching. In addition, it is considered one of the most efficient ways to disseminate theories, ideas, and facts. Many critics feel that lectures are an obsolete method to use when students need to perform hands-on activities, which is an everyday need in the study of medicine. This study evaluates students' perceptions ...

Two delivery methods for a course in Genetics and Evolution were compared using preand post-testing of basic concepts to evaluate the effectiveness of each method. The metric , the gain in learning, was calculated as the ratio of the difference between the post-test and pre-test score divided by the difference between the highest possible score and the pre-test score. The first or studio tea...

This study examined a nutrition education program consisting of two content sessions: food-label reading, and food pyramid guide. In each session two groups of nutrition interns utilized four teaching methods: role-play/video presentation/display, grocery store tour, overhead transparency and lecture, and power point lecture, among a group of (N = 29) ninth grade, high school students. The purp...

Background: Research about teaching methods and students' education is an important subject which can improve the quality of education. This study was performed to compare three educational methods: teaching through lecture, presentation by small group of students, student's search and study of topics before the class. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 42 students' of 5th ...

1. Ordered Sets, Ordered Fields, and Completeness 1 1.1. Lecture 1: January 5, 2016 1 1.2. Lecture 2: January 7, 2016 4 1.3. Lecture 3: January 11, 2016 7 1.4. Lecture 4: January 14, 2014 9 2. Sequences and Limits 13 2.1. Lecture 5: January 19, 2016 13 2.2. Lecture 6: January 21, 2016 15 2.3. Lecture 7: January 26, 2016 18 2.4. Lecture 8: January 28, 2016 21 3. Extensions of R: the Extended Rea...

background and purpose: small group teaching(sgt) in is a known method for developing intellectual skills, changing attitudes and encouraging the taking of responsibilities for learning. this study was an attempt to compare students’ attitudes and knowledge scores on sgt and lecture -based teaching (lbt). methods: 22 first year medical students were enrolled in a course using two methods (lectu...

Lecture 1. Harmonic Analysis of Measures: Analysis on Fractals Lecture 2. Spectra of measures, tilings, and wandering vectors Lecture 3. The universal tiling conjecture in dimension one and operator fractals Lecture 4. Representations of Cuntz algebras associated to quasi-stationary Markov measures Lecture 5. The Cuntz relations and kernel decompositions Lecture 6. Harmonic analysis of wavelet ...