2017 AAPM Annual Meeting
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Session Title: Adult Learning (Andragogy) Techniques for Medical Physics
Question 1: Students that are positioned on being a lifelong learner have which quality?
Reference:Mayhew, M. J., Wolniak, G. C., & Pascarella, E. T. (2008). How educational practices affect the development of life-long learning orientations in traditionally-aged undergraduate students. Research in Higher Education, 49,337-356.
Choice A:Concerned about grades and board scores.
Choice B:Are guided by internal motivation.
Choice C:Dependent on guidance from the instructor.
Choice D:Learns what they are told to learn.
Question 2: Instructors can promote lifelong habits in students by:
Reference:How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching. Susan A. Ambrose, Michael W. Bridges, Michele DiPietro, Marsha C. Lovett, Marie K. Norman, editors. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 2010.
Choice A:Giving lectures dense in content without explicit application.
Choice B:Promoting that the only way to learn is the instructors way.
Choice C:Provide learning experiences that promote and encourage reflection.
Choice D:Provide assignments that duplicate or recite class content.
Question 3: Which assignment example exemplifies helping our learners to develop skills of metacognition?
Reference:National Research Council.  How People Learn:  Brain, Mind, Experience, and School.  National Academy Press, 2000
Choice A:A computerized multiple-choice test where the student receives their percentage score and explanation of the incorrect answers at the end.
Choice B:Assign students to read the chapter before the next lecture.
Choice C:Task them with designing an experiment relating to the presented material and explaining how it relates to the concepts presented in class.
Choice D:Memorize the half-lives of 10 radioisotopes.
Question 4: Which strategy BEST demonstrates how to foster a successful learning/understanding environment for our students?
Reference:National Research Council.  How People Learn:  Brain, Mind, Experience, and School.  National Academy Press, 2000
Choice A:Cover as many concepts in class as possible.
Choice B:Regular pop quizzes to test how well the students remember and recall concepts.
Choice C:Do not collect homework assignments, so students feel comfortable making mistakes.
Choice D:Collect homework assignments or do problems in class, to regularly assess the students understanding of the material and provide feedback.
Question 5: Which of these strategies conduces to long term understanding and recall of new knowledge?
Reference:Dunlosky, J. American Educator, 37(3), 12-21, Strengthening the student toolbox: Study strategies to boost learning, 2013.
Choice A:Highlighting important ideas and making conceptual maps with them.
Choice B:Draw diagrams using colors and figures.
Choice C:Asking questions when reading of the material and mixing different subject areas in each study session.
Choice D:Use mnemonics to remember concepts and mass practice of problems to apply them.
Question 6: Why should instructors tell students about good studying techniques?
Reference:Dunlosky, J. American Educator, 37(3), 12-21, Strengthening the student toolbox: Study strategies to boost learning, 2013.
Choice A:They will help make more efficient use of the time spent by the student with the material.
Choice B:They are the student counterpart of the work done by the instructor in preparing the class.
Choice C:These techniques will help students cement their knowledge for longer term goals, such as professional examinations.
Choice D:Mass practice of problems develops automatic technical skills that are fundamental in using the material creatively in scientific and clinical settings.
Choice E:All of the above.
Choice F:All of the above EXCEPT D.
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