STATISTINE METODE V EPIDEMIOLOGIJI

Individual methods of education
By the term “individual methods of education”, first association is on self-studying, but
these methods are much more than only self-studying (1). In addition to self-studying,
individual methods of education are also methods of distance education and methods of
personal contact (Figure 8).
Figure 8. Some individual methods of education.
Individual methods of education enable individualized process, oriented towards
individual student (1,32).
Today, with explosion of communication technologies, distance education is
very popular, and it is not any more limited on individual distance learning only. With
new e-communication technologies, also group distance learning is possible. But this
group of methods is out of the scope of this module. Because of its expansion it needs to
be presented in a separate module.
Despite extensiveness of communication technologies, an important part of
individual methods of education represents methods of personal contact education. In
this type of education, teacher is in contact with one student at a time only (1). This part
of the module will be dedicated to selected personal contact methods, being
consultations, instructions, tutorials, and mentorship.
1. Consultations (1,26,36).
Consultation is specific teaching method in a form of a mutual discussion, advising,
clarification of certain problem, and answering questions. In consultation hours,
students could also get information about recommended readings and similar.
Consultations are not obligatory method - students seek contact with teacher
voluntarily.
2. Instructions (1,26,36).
Instructions are very specific form of communication between the teacher, and
the student, and it refers to narrower segment of educational process.
According to Dunn and Dunn (36), individualized instructions focus the
instructional process on individual skills, abilities, interests, goals, and rate of
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