Objectives: This paper reports first year Caribbean medical students' preferred and least preferred Communication Skills teaching styles. It also reports their views on assessment and what qualities they valued in a good Communication Skills teacher. Methods: Questionnaires were administered to first year students at the end of Semester One and the data compared with the results of a study using the same questionnaire format in the UK. Results: Caribbean medical students favoured interactive lectures with opportunities for discussion over the didactic formal lecture. The least preferred modes of teaching selected were private study, formal lecture, role play and student presentations. The qualities that students rated highly in their Communication Skills teachers were being a skilled teacher and being knowledgeable and approachable.The preferred assessment style was a 50-50 balance between coursework and exam. Conclusions: First year medical students in the Caribbean studying Communication Skills preferred interactive lectures with opportunities for discussion. Their explanations indicated that interactive lectures provided more stimulation allowing opportunities for learning and greater retention of information. Students also found small group discussions with constructive feedback helpful in developing their own communication skills. Other international faculty may find this approach of establishing students' preferences for teaching style useful in planning their curriculum delivery.
Neste trabalho pretende-se explorar e descrever fatores fundamentais que influenciam o conhecimento e a utilização das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC), em particular de Software Educativo (SE) como ferramenta, pelos professores que ensinam Matemática, em qualquer ciclo de ensino português. O método adotado possui natureza descritiva e exploratória, com enfoque num paradigma quantitativo. Os participantes no estudo foram 96 docentes que ensinam Matemática, de várias escolas básicas e secundárias, de diferentes regiões de Portugal, bem como, de outros países onde se insere o currículo português. Foram utilizados como instrumentos um questionário, o teste da independência do quiquadrado e o teste V de Cramer. A análise dos dados foi feita com recurso ao SPSS (versão 25) e ao Excel (Office 2016). Os resultados obtidos sugerem que a idade, o género e o tempo de serviço dos professores que lecionam Matemática, poderão ser fatores fundamentais que influenciam o conhecimento e a utilização do SE Kahoot e que ter formação poderá ser condição essencial para a utilização dos SE Modellus e Scratch. Não encontramos nenhuma relação de dependência entre ter formação e a utilização do SE Régua e Compasso pelos inquiridos
os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal 'attitudes towards mathematics, as well as, it contributes to develop students' motivation. In addition, the process of constructing the educational game points to an improvement in the learning of geometrical concepts inherent to the game, in a playful and dynamic way.
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