Impact of Electronic and Non-Electronic Teaching Methods in Medical Physiology

ABSTRACT

We investigated whether students prefer and performed better from Power Point presentations method of delivering lecture from traditional chalk and board method. Two groups of students were exposed to series of lectures in same topic by the same teacher. One group received lectures in Power Point method and another in chalk and board method. After each lecture an objective test was given to compare the effectiveness of both the lecture methods. Also after completing the whole series of lectures, another objective test was given. At the end students were asked to write comments about the lecture classes. The result of the study showed that as far as the students’ performance is concerned there was no significant difference in both the groups. Taking the consideration of students’ opinion about both lecture delivery methods, majority students feel that both Power Point and chalk and board should be used simultaneously in all the classes.