This paper presents the output of a discussion group formed at the ITEM 3.7 Working Conference. The main theme of the discussion group was to consider the evolutionary nature of IT in Educational Management.

Two studies were performed in an attempt to generalize the risky-cautiousshift phenomenon to attitudes and to test "information exchange" and "mutual reinforcement" explanations of discussion-produced shifts. Study I confirmed an assumption of the information-exchange hypothesis by extending to the attitude realm the finding that subjects perceive their peers as less in the valued direction tha...

purpose:     methods:     results:     conclusion:     our study suggests that using mpcd method is an effective way to increase clinical reasoning skills of medical students. the attitude of students about the positive effects of mpcd increased significantly from the first day to the last day (p intervention. 120 third-year medical students at our medical university were randomly assigned to 1...

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