PowerPoint demonstrated instructional effectiveness on only the long-term learning retention of the students compared with traditional instruction.
Objective measures for assessing teaching effectiveness and learning outcomes in the pharmacy curriculum are needed for improving quality of instruction and faculty development.
The only exception occurred in statements (c) and (g) where the 2nd-year students held less positive views on the efficiency grammar instruction and the effectiveness of communicative language teaching than the 3rd-year group.
Identifying limitations in education and evaluating the effectiveness of instruction are vital practices for the success of education.
In further research, the use of immediate recall in patients should be controlled, as well as the association between the number of health problems, the number of recalled instructions and the effectiveness of the treatment.
With children, the role of imagery instructions in the effectiveness of the training is an important area for further investigation (Vassilopoulos, Blackwell, Moberly and Karahaliou, 2012), but there are other reasons to suggest that having children listen to the training scenarios rather than reading them may enhance the impact of the training.
We recommend using these tests in a pre/posttest design to assess the effectiveness of instruction, as well as using formative assessments to monitor learning throughout instruction (Angelo and Cross, 1993; Marrs and Novak, 2004).
A further critical aspect of the present research concerned the effectiveness of instruction in phylogenetics given in biology classes.
Another element of great interest, and arguably the more challenging element of this call for research collaboration, is to seek indications of effectiveness of instruction.
A high level of learner control positively affected the effectiveness of instruction only with regard to intuitive knowledge, but was at the same time accompanied by large increases in learning time, thereby rendering the instruction inefficient.
Research on the effectiveness of instruction on the development of knowledge of formulaic sequences has attracted the attention of a considerable number of linguists for more than a decade.
