Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of Computer Assisted Instruction and Traditional Lecture Instruction for Administration and Management Topics in Physical Therapy Education written by Matthew Robert Hyland and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statement of the problem. Graduate Physical Therapy educators must determine how to best utilize new technology such as computer assisted instruction (CAI, defined as supplementing or replacing classroom teaching with the computer) and identify factors that may influence a student's ability to succeed in this medium. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to determine if student ability to learn via CAI was equivalent to traditional lecture instruction (TLI), and to determine if student self identified learning style via the Gregorc Style Delineator impacted ability to succeed. Methods. Prospective, experimental, randomized, single factor, pretest/post-test design. 33 out of a possible 40 students consented to participate in the study and were randomized to two groups: CAI n=17, TLI n=16. The groups participated in an Administration and Management of Physical Therapy course taught in 2004. Ability to learn was evaluated by a knowledge based pretest and post-test and by final course grade. Results. There were no significant differences between the groups with regard to age, gender, GPA or pretest knowledge. When comparing pretest to post-test both the TLI (52.0+/-9.5 to 85.1+/-6.1; p