Effectiveness of a Brief Workshop Designed to Improve Teaching Performance at the University of Alberta
Academic MedicinePublished 29 July 2004
Kerri Pandachuck, Dwight Harley, David Cook
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Short teaching-enhancement workshops are regarded by the participants as helpful in improving their instructional skills, and this view is supported by a significant increase in students’ ratings of the instructors after they had taken the workshop.
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Short teaching-enhancement workshops are regarded by the participants as helpful in improving their instructional skills. This view is supported by a significant increase in students' ratings of the instructors after they had taken the workshop.
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