As students begin to think of themselves as consumers, rather than learners, their attitudes towards those who teach them is changing.
Teaching learners to perform endoscopic procedures is challenging, yet effective endoscopy teaching practices are not well-described in the literature, and prior studies have focused on perspectives of supervising physicians rather than learners.
Second, the school curriculum is already crowded; and introducing a subject like philosophy will not only distract students from what they need to learn, it may encourage them to become skeptics rather than learners.
Students may be surmised to have acquired the role of a clinical helper rather than a learner over this period of time.
With RCA new findings included the importance of the assessor rather than the learner selecting the records, and the assessor being mindful of the risk to the assessment when the selected records are of poor quality allowing the learner to embellish their recall of the consultation.
In our push towards achieving academic excellence, are we inadvertently producing 'good test-takers', rather than 'good learners'?
Our textbooks are designed to make students active rather than passive learners throughout the learning process," says Vikram Savkar, SVP & Publishing Director at Nature Publishing Group.
This has resulted in a worsening skills gap, a disconnect between educational output and the human capital demands of industry, and a culture focused on getting kids into college rather than providing learners with what they need to be successful in their careers and lives.
Nursing students have been suggested to be 'pedagogic' rather than 'andragogic' learners who prefer to 'listen and learn' rather than actively participate [ 13].
Due to the focus of this study on the assessment of entry-level education (novice rather than postgraduate learners or clinicians), the instrument was intended to evaluate the first three fundamental steps of the EBP process model (ASK, ACQUIRE and APPRAISE), rather than assessment of the fourth step involving the application of knowledge and skills in clinical practice.
