Learning Pyramid Methods

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INTRODUCTION There have been many studies done on learning styles and methods of teaching over the last 30 years. After World War II Edgar Dale wrote a book explaining the Learning Pyramid. This pyramid listed different teaching techniques that, when used, gave different rates of learning efficiency (Dale, 1946). This book was updated and published three more times through the years. The learning pyramid has continually been reprinted in teaching guides, as recently as 2005. (DeKanter, 2005) The National Training Laboratories has been associated with this work for years but now is admitting it doesn’t have any evidence of a study being performed. (Lalley and Miller 2007) This method, that has been talked about and taught to educators for…show more content…
Any growth observed on either of the two plates was recorded as contamination. RESULTS In our experiment we had three different groups differentiated by treatment type. The three treatments were the control, passive learning and active learning. Every individual completed two isolation streaks on two separate agar plates. The control and passive groups each had 18 subjects, the active group had 30 subjects. Each subject had two agar plates that were measured as either being contaminated or not contaminated after treatment. If there was any contamination on either plate, a minimum of one colony forming unit (cfu) is considered contamination, the subject was scored as failure. The control group contained 15 failures and 3 successes. The passive learning group contained 13 failures and 5 successes, while the active learning group had 5 failures and 15 successes. The Fishers Exact Test was performed against the passive versus active groups. The p value was <0.002. The null hypothesis was rejected.…show more content…
According to the NIH aseptic technique is very commonly taught throughout passive techniques such as either a handout or video without and hands-on experience. Despite this fact it has been shown that without constant practice and proficiency review, nurses are more likely to contaminate than other health professionals that are regularly required to remain proficient (Austin and Elia, 2013). According to previous research, retention rate and conceptual understanding directly correlate with active teaching and learning methods (Laws et al., 1999). One of the arguments that call for passive instruction being more beneficial than active instruction is the length of time
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