Programmed learning in medical education: An experimental comparison of programmed instruction by teaching machine with conventional lecturing in the teaching of electrocardiography to final year medical students

Abstract

THOUGH programmed learning is an educational technique which is gaining increasing acceptance In other spheres, its possible usefulness in medical education largely remains to be evaluated. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the relative efficiency of a teaching-machine course in electrocardiography and a series of conventional lectures on the same subject. In planning the experiment we were guided by the criteria laid down by Cheris (1964) for valid comparisons of programmed and non-programmed instruction.