Effectiveness of “Teacher’s Training on Helping Students Learn” on Health Professionals

Abstract

Background: The main purpose of this article is to assess the effectiveness of teacher's training workshop through comparing pretest and posttest.

Methods: A written 4-point Likert Scale questionnaires was administered to seventy six faculty teachers before and at the end of the teacher's training. The data were collected and analyzed. A descriptive study method was used.

Results: Majority of the respondents 68(89.4%) expressed that they can confidently use audiovisual materials such as Flip Chart and Black/White Board effectively during post test while only 26(34.2%) respondents expressed they had some idea of using during pretest. The posttest result reveled highly significant effectiveness of the teacher training programmer's performance in each item.

Conclusion: This study demonstrated overall positive effectiveness of the teacher's training workshop.

Key words: Pretest, Posttest, Teacher Training

Journal of Institute of Medicine, August, 2008; 30:2 39-45

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