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Kelley, Kristi; Liles, Anne Marie – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2018
Providing patient education for a group is an essential practice for all healthcare providers that has been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), specifically in relation to patients with chronic diseases. This practice requires skills such as adapting communication to meet the…
Descriptors: Patient Education, Communication Strategies, Knowledge Level, Pharmacy
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Trespalacios, Jesús H.; Perkins, Ross A. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
Individual strategies to increase response rate and survey completion have been extensively researched. Recently, efforts have been made to investigate a combination of interventions to yield better response rates for web-based surveys. This study examined the effects of four different survey invitation conditions on response rate. From a large…
Descriptors: Response Rates (Questionnaires), Online Surveys, Focus Groups, College Students
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Sinclair, Christine – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This study brings together three student comments and three theoretical constructs taken from Bakhtin's (1981) collection of essays "The Dialogic Imagination", written in the 1930s. Bakhtin's concepts of the chronotope, interanimation and the monologic provide lenses on a shifting student perspective on authoritative writing in…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Student Attitudes, Essays
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Dobbins, Chelsea; Denton, Philip – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
This paper is a report of an investigation in which mobile technologies were used during large lecture-type sessions in tandem with the Textwall™ software. This online program is able to receive and present messages from students' devices that the lecturer may then share. It also can be used to collect student votes on multiple-choice questions,…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Lecture Method, Large Group Instruction