Most students rated RLO media components such as animations as helping them understand concepts including Forest plots¶

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q2 i? 86% of students reported that media components such as animations helped them understand concepts including Forest plots. → Bath-Hextall Fiona 2011

Evidence¶

Bath-Hextall Fiona 2011¶

Bath-Hextall Fiona, Wharrad Heather, Leonardi-Bee Jo. (2011). Teaching tools in Evidence Based Practice: evaluation of reusable learning objects (RLOs) for learning about Meta-analysis. BMC Medical Education. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3123313/

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Descriptive percentage from the student evaluation of the RLOs; the abstract states media components "helped most students (86%) understand concepts including for example Forest plots". No statistical test is reported for this figure.

"Whilst the media components of the RLOs such as animations helped most students (86%) understand concepts including for example Forest plots, 93% of students rated usability and control as important to their learning."

Discussion¶

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