Rizzolo Lawrence J, Aden Marcus, Stewart William B
Section of Anatomy, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA.
Clin Anat. 2002 Aug;15(5):351-5. doi: 10.1002/ca.10045.
Course materials for a Human Anatomy and Development Course were placed on the World Wide Web (WWW). The materials included a lab manual, lecture notes and slides, faculty-generated atlases, Web links, and examinations. The lab manual, lecture notes, and atlases were also provided as black-and-white hardcopy. The Office of Education assigned students a code name that allowed them to use the Web site and take exams anonymously. Student Web use was tracked and correlated with their performance on the final examination. Overall use patterns revealed that most students used the Web site to prepare for examinations, but not for daily studying. Old examinations were the most accessed documents; lecture notes were the least accessed. The access patterns of the students with top 20, middle 20 (closest to the mean), and bottom 20 scores on the final examination were compared. In general, there was little difference between the middle and top groups. Students in the bottom group used computer resources significantly less than the other groups. In a second analysis, the 10 students who used the Web site most frequently scored below the mean. The study suggests that interactive exercises will be heavily used, but that the preparation of all course materials for the WWW may not be an efficient use of institutional resources.
一门人体解剖学与发育课程的教学材料被放置在了万维网上。这些材料包括实验手册、讲义及幻灯片、教师制作的图谱、网页链接以及考试内容。实验手册、讲义和图谱也以黑白纸质版形式提供。教育办公室为学生分配了一个代码名，使他们能够使用该网站并匿名参加考试。对学生的网络使用情况进行了跟踪，并将其与他们在期末考试中的表现相关联。总体使用模式显示，大多数学生使用该网站是为了备考，而非日常学习。旧试卷是被访问最多的文档；讲义则是被访问最少的。对期末考试成绩排名前20、中间20（最接近平均分）和后20的学生的访问模式进行了比较。总体而言，中间组和高分段组之间差异不大。低分段组的学生使用计算机资源的频率明显低于其他组。在第二项分析中，使用该网站最频繁的10名学生成绩低于平均分。该研究表明，交互式练习将会被大量使用，但为万维网准备所有课程材料可能并非对机构资源的有效利用。
