Teaching Efficiency of Videotapes in Cardiology

Thirty lectures

“…This is a problem common to many areas of clinical and laboratory medicine. An alternative approach to the evaluation of any teaching‐method is the ‘bio‐assay’ whereby the ‘activity’ of the method is judged by its effects on the examination results of the students taught (Harden, Lever, Dunn, Lindsay, Holroyd, and Wilson, 1969; Kenmure, Thomson, Kennedy, and Cameron, 1969). This, however, brings in a further group of variables, in student ability (Last and Stanley, 1969), in the control data needed (Cantrell and Craven, 1969), in what exactly is to be tested (Dudley, 1969), and with the reliability of the testing methods (Bull, 1956).…”