Document Type
Article
Subject Area(s)
Library Science
Abstract
The goal of this study was to determine whether a passive or an interactive tutorial design improves understanding of key concepts, as measured by pre- and post-test data. The authors also collected data regarding the participants’ preference for taking an interactive versus a passive tutorial. The interactive tutorial group improved statistically significantly from pre-test to post-test for all three learning questions. While the passive tutorial group improved from pre-test to post-test on all three questions, the improvement was statistically significant for just two of the three questions. The majority of the participants preferred interactive tutorials (78%) to passive tutorials (22%).
Publication Info
Postprint version. Published in Medical Reference Services Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 1, Spring 2009, pages 10-21.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/WMRS
© 2009 by Haworth Press (now Taylor & Francis)