Analysis of questioning technique during classes in medical education

BMC Medical Education

Research Article

So Jung Yune¹  Yu Hyone Yi²  Yun Jin Kim²  Mi Jin Bae²  Jeong Gyu Lee²  Dong Wook Jeong³  Young Hye Cho³  Eun Jung Choi³  Sang Yeoup Lee⁴  Sun Yong Baek⁵  Sun Hee Lee⁵  Sun Ju Im⁵ 

[1] Center for Teaching and Learning, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea;Department of Family Medicine, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, South Korea;Family Medicine Clinic and Research Institute of Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea;Family Medicine Clinic and Research Institute of Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea;Medical Education Unit and Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University, School of Medicine, Beomeo-ri Mulgeum-eup, 626-870, Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea;Medical Education Unit and Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University, School of Medicine, Beomeo-ri Mulgeum-eup, 626-870, Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea;

关键词: Questioning;    Lecture;    Medical education;    Wait‒time;    Faculty;    Perception;    Reality;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6920-12-39

 received in 2012-04-23, accepted in 2012-06-12,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundQuestioning is one of the essential techniques used by lecturers to make lectures more interactive and effective. This study surveyed the perception of questioning techniques by medical school faculty members and analyzed how the questioning technique is used in actual classes.MethodsData on the perceptions of the questioning skills used during lectures was collected using a self‒questionnaire for faculty members (N = 33) during the second semester of 2008. The questionnaire consisted of 18 items covering the awareness and characteristics of questioning skills. Recorded video tapes were used to observe the faculty members’ questioning skills.ResultsMost faculty members regarded the questioning technique during classes as being important and expected positive outcomes in terms of the students’ participation in class, concentration in class and understanding of the class contents. In the 99 classes analyzed, the median number of questions per class was 1 (0–29). Among them, 40 classes (40.4 %) did not use questioning techniques. The frequency of questioning per lecture was similar regardless of the faculty members’ perception. On the other hand, the faculty members perceived that their usual wait time after question was approximately 10 seconds compared to only 2.5 seconds measured from video analysis. More lecture‒experienced faculty members tended to ask more questions in class.ConclusionsThere were some discrepancies regarding the questioning technique between the faculty members’ perceptions and reality, even though they had positive opinions of the technique. The questioning skills during a lecture need to be emphasized to faculty members.

【 授权许可】

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© Cho et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.