We know that simply providing instructors with evidence about their teaching practices is not enough to instigate improved teaching (Andrews and Lemons, personal communication).
Bin Xu, MD, MPH, is an instructor of evidence-based medicine education at the third military medical university.
Xiangyu Ma, MD, PhD, is an instructor of evidence-based medicine education at the third military medical university.
Increasingly, biology instructors are collecting evidence from students about how they think about biology concepts before, during, and after instruction.
For instructors, this preassessment evidence can be used to tailor the instruction to the particular conceptual challenges of that group of students.
DS1 course instructors who provide evidence of integrated course materials and instruction between two or more departments or disciplines are selected to participate in the Integration Seminar.
In hopes of encouraging robust research in this critical area, this paper details three instruments that can be utilized to examine graduate instructor cognition and evidence of learning in a methods course: questionnaires, concept maps, and reflective teaching journals.
Another significant finding is reported for instructor 2, where evidence of the 'meshing' hypothesis appears to be present in the difference between QPT scores from sittings 1 and 2 for GAO learners compared with those of PO and IAO learners, dependant on whether participation as assessed or not.
This study also provides evidence for instructors on feasibility of implementation of active learning strategy with visualization in instructor-mediated classrooms.
Students and clinical instructors provided strong anecdotal evidence for the curricular emphasis on student participation and personal development.
