Students' perception of different teaching aids in a medical college

• DOI: 10.7196/ajhpe.30
• Publication Date: 2009-11-13
• Authors: SN Baxi; CJ Shah; RD Parmar; Dhaval Parmar; CB Tripathi
• Keywords: Kinesthetic learning

Medical teachers have conventionally been using different teaching methods to educate medical students previously dominated by blackboard and slide projectors. More recently audiovisual aids such as videotapes multimedia introduced. Critics of feel that it is expensive, too time consuming, isn’t worth the effort.1 A learner’s learning style, whether visual, auditory or kinesthetic, usually resistant change.2 Hence likely mismatches exist between styles teachers. This study was undertaken determine 2nd-year student teaching-aid preferences during classroom instruction in a college India.