Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Medical Education Development Center
Abstract
Active participation of students in teaching is the one of the effective way of learning in science education according to large investigation. By this way students understand current level of knowledge, increasing the student’s eagerness and their attraction for learning. This study was designed to explore the effect of active student involvement in teaching and learning of the bacteriology in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, faculty of Medicine. Material & Methods: Total of 100, medical (n= 50) and nutrition (n= 50) students were participated in this research during two semesters. We started up the session with 2 minutes warming up, 2 minutes for review of previous lecture with asking questions, 35 minutes lectures with repeating and asking questions with students, 5 min summary and end up asking them. We asked students to fill out the questionnaire with 6 questions at the end of semester. Result and discussion: The results of questionnaire analysis showed that there is agreement among students that the bacteriology teaching according to collaborative teaching enhance student learning. Interactive learning environments well serve the variety of students studying bacteriology. In summary, there is large data ccollected by researchers in bacteriology teaching and learning that the traditional lecture base method is not effective in promoting theoretical learning in bacteriology. There is also wide-ranging data that active learning method facilitate well in many different environments