Online Debates to Enhance Critical Thinking in Pharmacotherapy
OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of teaching strategies on the complexity and structure of students’ arguments and type of informal reasoning used in arguments. DESIGN: Students were given an introduction to argumentation followed by 2 formal debates, with feedback provided in between. ASSESSMENT:...
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American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
2013
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| author | Charrois, Theresa Appleton, Michelle |
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| description | OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of teaching strategies on the complexity and structure of students’ arguments and type of informal reasoning used in arguments. DESIGN: Students were given an introduction to argumentation followed by 2 formal debates, with feedback provided in between. ASSESSMENT: Four debate groups were randomly selected for evaluation. In debate 1, all groups posted 1 argument, and all 4 arguments were rationalistic and ranked as high-level arguments. In debate 2, members of the 4 groups posted a total of 33 arguments, which were evaluated and received an overall median ranking lower than that for debate 1. All debates were categorized as rationalistic. CONCLUSION: Students were able to formulate rationalistic arguments to therapeutic controversies; however, their level of argumentation decreased over the course of the study. Changes planned for the future include conducting the debates in the context of patient scenarios to increase practical applicability. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-250512023-02-22T06:24:15Z Online Debates to Enhance Critical Thinking in Pharmacotherapy Charrois, Theresa Appleton, Michelle pharmacotherapy debate critical thinking online OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of teaching strategies on the complexity and structure of students’ arguments and type of informal reasoning used in arguments. DESIGN: Students were given an introduction to argumentation followed by 2 formal debates, with feedback provided in between. ASSESSMENT: Four debate groups were randomly selected for evaluation. In debate 1, all groups posted 1 argument, and all 4 arguments were rationalistic and ranked as high-level arguments. In debate 2, members of the 4 groups posted a total of 33 arguments, which were evaluated and received an overall median ranking lower than that for debate 1. All debates were categorized as rationalistic. CONCLUSION: Students were able to formulate rationalistic arguments to therapeutic controversies; however, their level of argumentation decreased over the course of the study. Changes planned for the future include conducting the debates in the context of patient scenarios to increase practical applicability. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25051 10.5688/ajpe778170 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy unknown |
| spellingShingle | pharmacotherapy debate critical thinking online Charrois, Theresa Appleton, Michelle Online Debates to Enhance Critical Thinking in Pharmacotherapy |
| title | Online Debates to Enhance Critical Thinking in Pharmacotherapy |
| title_full | Online Debates to Enhance Critical Thinking in Pharmacotherapy |
| title_fullStr | Online Debates to Enhance Critical Thinking in Pharmacotherapy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Online Debates to Enhance Critical Thinking in Pharmacotherapy |
| title_short | Online Debates to Enhance Critical Thinking in Pharmacotherapy |
| title_sort | online debates to enhance critical thinking in pharmacotherapy |
| topic | pharmacotherapy debate critical thinking online |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25051 |