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Engel, John D.; Filling, Constance M. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1981
Implications of controlled studies for health professions education are explored. An alternative research strategy is proposed, in which descriptive account of a situation allowing the important factors to become apparent throughout the observation is emphasized. This facilitates an hypothesis-generation strategy. (GK)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Ethnography, Models, Research Methodology

Chambers, David W. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1991
The effects of educational practices emphasizing faculty control of the learning process on student effort to learn are explored. Research on student learning is summarized. Educational systems that do not acknowledge student management of their own effort will not succeed. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Practices, Health Occupations, Learning Experience

Cohen, Peter A.; Dacanay, Lakshmi S. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
The meta-analytic techniques of G. V. Glass were used to statistically integrate findings from 47 comparative studies on computer-based instruction (CBI) in health professions education. A clear majority of the studies favored CBI over conventional methods of instruction. Results show higher-order applications of computers to be especially…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Allied Health Occupations Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction