If not carefully integrated into the curriculum, these officials say, technology can undermine academic traditions that have come to define the most prestigious schools: small discussion groups, close personal relationships with professors and the time-honored Socratic method of inquiry.
While professors across the country have jumped into the digital realm with online syllabuses, Web-based assignments and e-mail discussion groups, most of them are still wary of using computers for final exams or other high-stakes tests, primarily because giving exams on computers opens a Pandora's box of problems.
The issue that generated most discussion in all focus groups was the concern of being able to correctly identify those individuals at higher risk for HbPs.
They were based on the four vignettes that had stimulated most discussion during the focus groups, supplemented by a topic schedule that sought information on health, social, and geographical factors and explored emergent themes.
Results from the discussion groups indicated that most of the standard instructions could be enhanced to promote patient's understanding.
The first and third topic were most popular; we therefore organized two discussion groups, one on research design, and one on the use of (at that stage) future human biomonitoring results.
9 19 20 Some of the most valuable, novel findings from the discussion groups were related to presenting numerical information on Rx labels, selecting measurement terminology for liquid drugs and the need for external aids to support tapered dosing.
Only a few people participated in the structured discussion groups but the intention was for these people to widen the discussion, so that most parents in each intervention cluster would know of the structured discussions.
Often, there are discussion groups.
Discussion groups were receptive.
