Development and Evaluation of Computer Assisted Instruction for Basic Knowledge about Infectious Diseases
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The objective of this study was to create and develops Computer Assistant Instruction (CAI) for 3rd year pharmacy students at Faculty of pharmacy, Chiangmai University. The study was one group pretest-posttest design. The CAI consisted of three topics: Epidemiology and etiology of infectious disease, clinical presentation and diagnosis, and laboratory test. After completion of 2- hour traditional lecture in class, pharmacy students were invited to complete the pretest which consisted of 8 multiple choice questionnaires about their knowledge then the CAI were implement. After finishing CAI, the students completed the posttest and the survey evaluated students’ perception of the effectiveness of the CAI using 3-level Likert scale: 3=good, 2=fair, 1=poor. The survey consists of 5 aspects 1) CAI content 4 questions 2) illustration 2 questions 3) sound 2 questions 4) language 2 questions 5) presentation 2 questions. From 145 subjects, 75.2% were female. Results indicated that the students’ perception for CAI were in a good level (>80%) for almost aspects except the difficulty of course contents and the speed of narrator. The comparison of knowledge by using pair t-test indicated significantly different between the average score before and after using CAI (5.02±1.45 vs. 7.06±0.96: p<0.005). In additions, students expressed their desire to use CAI programs for other pharmacotherapy lectures. In conclusion, the introduction to antimicrobial pharmacotherapy CAI program in combination with traditional lectures was effective and overall students’ perception was in a good level. In the future, CAI should be implementing and probably is valuable in pharmacy education.
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