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Selected Abstracts2 Incorporation of Audience Participation Technology into Resident Curriculum ReviewACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 2008Brian Sayger We have incorporated audience participation technology (Turning Point) into our weekly curriculum review sessions. This audience response system consists of individual remote response keypads, a USB port-compatible receiver, and software which integrates into PowerPoint. Board-style questions are written into PowerPoint slides and presented by the speaker. Rather than selecting one resident to answer a question, all audience members select an answer using their keypad. The receiver registers the answers and immediately displays a graph of the audience's responses. Questions with more incorrect answers are discussed in detail while less time is spent on questions answered correctly by most of the audience. This encourages active participation for each question and eliminates the stress of a single resident giving an incorrect answer in front of a large number of peers. Audience members are engaged throughout the hour rather than concentrating only on questions assigned to them. Residents and students discover that challenging questions are answered incorrectly by a significant number of audience members. In a short time using this system, we've seen audience discussion increase dramatically. We plan to expand our use of this technology to other lectures. Speakers will administer end-of-lecture quizzes, immediately assessing how effectively their presentation achieved its learning objectives. All residents have an assigned keypad, and their percentage of correct answers is recorded during every session. This allows the program to monitor a resident's progress and to identify areas in which the resident may need more instruction. This system has potential applications for competency assessment. [source] Toward More Effective Stakeholder Dialogue: Applying Theories of Negotiation to Policy and Program Evaluation,JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 12 2006Bernadette Campbell Borrowing from the negotiation literature, we tested 2 factors that might improve stakeholder dialogue in program and policy evaluation. Undergraduate stakeholders (61 pairs) engaged in dialogue about their universities' alcohol policies. Pairs were randomly assigned to levels of accountability audience and dialogue structure. The audience for the videotaped dialogue was described as holding either (a) views about the policy similar to the participant's, consistent across audience members (homogeneous), or (b) mixed views, on both sides of the issue (heterogeneous). Pairs approached the dialogue with either (a) problem-solving goals or (b) no particular strategy. Dyads accountable to a heterogeneous audience and given problem-solving instructions exhibited the most effective dialogue. Accountability to a heterogeneous audience facilitated satisfaction with and optimism about dialogue. Accountability to homogeneous audiences and adopting no particular strategy yielded the least positive perceptions of dialogue. Implications for stakeholder dialogue, and for the role of social psychology in evaluation are discussed. [source] Are News Reports of Suicide Contagious?JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, Issue 2 2006A Stringent Test in Six U.S. Cities Past evidence of suicidal contagion from news reports in the United States is based largely on national data prior to 1980 using proxies for suicide stories rather than local news sources. Our research examined more proximal effects of suicide news reporting for 4 months in 1993 in 6 U.S. cities controlling for a wide range of alternative sources of media and interpersonal influence. In addition, predictions for the effect based on suicide contagion theories were examined for 3 age groups (15,25, 25,44, and older than 44). Local television news was associated with increased incidence of deaths by suicide among persons younger than 25 years. Newspaper reports were associated with suicide deaths for both young persons and persons older than 44 years. An unexpected protective effect of television news reports was observed in the 25,44 age range; nevertheless, news reporting was associated with an aggregate increase in suicide deaths. The results support theories of media contagion but also suggest that media depiction can inhibit suicide among some audience members. [source] Conceptualizing sources in online newsJOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, Issue 1 2001S S Sundar This study attempts a new conceptualization of communication ,sources' by proposing a typology of sources that would apply not only to traditional media but also to new online media. Ontological rationale for the distinctions in the typology is supplemented by psychological evidence via an experiment that investigated the effects of different types of source attributions upon receivers' perception of online news content. Participants (N=48) in a 4-condition, between-participants experiment read 6 identical news stories each through an online service. Participants were told that the stories were selected by 1 of 4 sources: news editors, the computer terminal on which they were accessing the stories, other audience members (or users) of the online news service, or (using a pseudo-selection task) the individual user (self). After reading each online news story, all participants filled out a paper-and-pencil questionnaire indicating their perceptions of the story they had just read. In confirmation of the distinctions made in the typology, attribution of identical content to 4 different types of online sources was associated with significant variation in news story perception. Theoretical implications of the results as well as the typology are discussed. [source] Values and information: An interdisciplinary examinationPROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2008Denise E. Agosto [Moderator & Contact Person] This panel will draw on interdisciplinary research relating to information and values. It will open with an interactive session during which the audience members will discuss the role of values in current and future information research. The panel members will then present three papers describing current information research projects in which the concept of "value" plays a major role. [source] "Sim Wars": A New Edge to Academic Residency CompetitionsACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 2009Yasuharu Okuda Introduction: Simulation training is an educational modality that is increasingly being utilized by emergency medicine programs to train and assess residents in core competencies. During a recent national conference, patient simulators were used in a competition to highlight multitasking, teamwork, and patient care skills. The combination of audience participation and an expert panel provided a creative forum for learning. Methods: the Foundation for Education and Research in Neurological Emergencies (FERNE) and the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA) sponsored an innovative competition between emergency medicine residencies during the 2008 Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). This competition used high-fidelity simulations to create scenarios on neurologic emergencies. Six teams were selected to participate in the three-hour single-elimination competition. The three-member resident teams were then randomly paired against another institution. Three separate 10 minute scenarios were created for the initial round, allowing paired teams to compete on the same scenario. An expert panel provided commentary and insight on the management by each team. In addition, the experts provided feedback in the areas of communication and team training. Each round's winners were determined by the audience using an interactive system. Results: Based on the immediate feedback from participants, audience members and the expert panelists, this event was an entertaining and successful learning experience for both residents and faculty. Like the Clinical Pathological Cases (CPC) competitions, "Sim Wars" provides a showcase for residencies to demonstrate practice philosophies while providing a unique emphasis on teamwork and communication skills. The ability to expand this program to include regional competitions that lead to a national contest could be the framework for future exciting and educational events. [source] 2 Incorporation of Audience Participation Technology into Resident Curriculum ReviewACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 2008Brian Sayger We have incorporated audience participation technology (Turning Point) into our weekly curriculum review sessions. This audience response system consists of individual remote response keypads, a USB port-compatible receiver, and software which integrates into PowerPoint. Board-style questions are written into PowerPoint slides and presented by the speaker. Rather than selecting one resident to answer a question, all audience members select an answer using their keypad. The receiver registers the answers and immediately displays a graph of the audience's responses. Questions with more incorrect answers are discussed in detail while less time is spent on questions answered correctly by most of the audience. This encourages active participation for each question and eliminates the stress of a single resident giving an incorrect answer in front of a large number of peers. Audience members are engaged throughout the hour rather than concentrating only on questions assigned to them. Residents and students discover that challenging questions are answered incorrectly by a significant number of audience members. In a short time using this system, we've seen audience discussion increase dramatically. We plan to expand our use of this technology to other lectures. Speakers will administer end-of-lecture quizzes, immediately assessing how effectively their presentation achieved its learning objectives. All residents have an assigned keypad, and their percentage of correct answers is recorded during every session. This allows the program to monitor a resident's progress and to identify areas in which the resident may need more instruction. This system has potential applications for competency assessment. [source] | ||||||||||