Impact Of Powerpoint And Chalkboard Teaching In Physiotherapy Undergraduates
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| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-200863
ABSTRACT
Background:
A teacher’s basic tool for displaying lectures are through blackboards, pegboards, bulletin boards, trans-parencies with an overhead projector (TOHP), PowerPoint presentation and walk and talk. Nowadays PowerPoint presentation is commonly used as it has ability to present the information in a clear, organized and simpler manner. The present study was carried out to find out the best method of teaching amongst the undergraduate Physiotherapy students.Objective:
To compare the impact of the PowerPoint multimedia presentation and chalkboard in teaching by assessing the knowledge based on the marks obtained in the pretest and posttest.Methodology:
40 students were di-vided into two groups and a selected content-based lecture in pharmacology was delivered. For one group lecture was delivered using PowerPoint presentation, for second group using Chalkboard. Single -best Multiple Choice Questions [MCQs] paper was used for assessing the knowledge gained. The differences in the marks obtained in the two groups were analyzedResults:
Students who attended the class on chalkboard obtained significantly higher score in single best MCQ examination compared to those students who attended the same content based lecture on the PowerPoint.Conclusion:
The chalkboard method of teaching was found more suitable tool of teaching and learning than Power-Point for small group
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Year:
2019
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Article
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