The effect of educational workshops on appropriate design of lesson plan & application of different levels of cognitive domain in faculty staff of (shaheed sadooghi's) yazd university of medical sciences. In 2000-2001: an iranian experience

Background: Lesson plan plays an important role in structuring the activity of the teacher and hence facilitates learning. It seems that our faculty members don't have enough knowledge about appropriate lesson planning.Purpose: The objective of this study was to determine if the educational workshops could improve the design of the lesson plan.Methods: 251 lesson plans from 235 faculty members were evaluated before and after the workshops, arranged to pave the way for appropriate design of lesson plan and application of cognitive domains action verbs according to bloom's taxonomy of cognitive domain and Indiana university lesson plan format.Results: Before workshops, 20.9% of the staffs' lesson plans designed correctly, 12% designed incorrectly and 67.1% of the staff didn't have lesson plan. After the workshops correct designs increased to 49.3%, incorrect design 17.4% and lack of lesson plans decreased to 34.3% . correct application of action verbs before the workshops showed 51.5%which dropped to 31.7% after workshops.Conclusion: Lesson planning workshops have considerable effect on the level of cognitive domain (in terms of bloom's taxonomy) and also improve the abilities of staffs in appropriate design and format of lesson plans.