Abromitis Rebecca A
a University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA.
Med Ref Serv Q. 2018 Oct-Dec;37(4):357-366. doi: 10.1080/02763869.2018.1514900.
Predoctoral students enter dental school with varying skill levels for searching biomedical databases and a tendency to overestimate their abilities. Accordingly, PubMed instruction is embedded within a required dental course and includes a graded component. This article describes a pretest/intervention/posttest developed for the PubMed session. The expectation for this new assessment was that motivation to learn PubMed would increase during the intervention if pretesting objectively showed students the difference between their self-perceived versus actual PubMed abilities. The goals were to help students better self-assess their genuine searching abilities, spark learning during the instruction session, and elicit measurable improvement in skills.
博士前学生进入牙科学院时，在搜索生物医学数据库方面的技能水平各不相同，而且往往高估自己的能力。因此，PubMed教学被纳入一门必修的牙科课程，并包括一个评分部分。本文描述了为PubMed课程开发的预测试/干预/后测试。对这项新评估的期望是，如果预测试客观地向学生展示他们自我认知的PubMed能力与实际能力之间的差异，那么在干预期间学习PubMed的动力将会增加。目标是帮助学生更好地自我评估他们真正的搜索能力，在教学过程中激发学习，并在技能方面取得可衡量的进步。
