EFFECT OF A NOVEL ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY USING TWITTER ON TEST PERFORMANCE
| Autor: | Amanda L. Webb, Adam Dugan, Woodrow Burchett, Kelly Barnett, Nishi Patel, Scott Morehead, Mark Silverberg, Christopher Doty, Brian Adkins, Lauren Falvo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 16, Iss 6, Pp 961-964 (2015) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1936-900X 1936-9018 |
| DOI: | 10.5811/westjem.2015.10.28869 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Medical educators in recent years have been using social media for more penetrance to technologically-savvy learners. The utility of using Twitter for curriculum content delivery has not been studied. We sought to determine if participation in a social media-based educational supplement would improve student performance on a test of clinical images at the end of the semester. Methods: 116 second-year medical students were enrolled in a lecture-based clinical medicine course, in which images of common clinical exam findings were presented. An additional, optional assessment was performed on Twitter. Each week, a clinical presentation and physical exam image (not covered in course lectures) were distributed via Twitter, and students were invited to guess the exam finding or diagnosis. After the completion of the course, students were asked to participate in a slideshow “quiz” with 24 clinical images, half from lecture and half from Twitter. Results: We conducted a one-way analysis of variance to determine the effect Twitter participation had on total, Twitter-only, and lecture-only scores. Twitter participation data was collected from the end-of-course survey and was defined as submitting answers to the Twitter-only questions “all or most of the time”, “about half of the time”, and “little or none of the time.” We found a significant difference in overall scores (p |
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