title: Quantifying the effectiveness of interactive tutorials in medical library instruction.
abstract: The goal of this study was to determine whether a passive or an interactive tutorial design improves understanding of key concepts, as measured by pre- and post-test data. The authors also collected data regarding the participants' preference for taking an interactive versus a passive tutorial. The interactive tutorial group improved statistically significantly from pre-test to post-test for all three learning questions. While the passive tutorial group improved from pre-test to post-test on all three questions, the improvement was statistically significant for just two of the three questions. The majority of the participants preferred interactive tutorials (78%) to passive tutorials (22%).
authors.affiliation: South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA. roz@med.sc.edu
authors.forename: Rozalynd P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Steven P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014584:User-Computer Interface