Theme
7BB Approaches to teaching and learning
INSTITUTION
Department of Clinical Pathology
Faculty of Medicine Vajira Hospital
Navamindradhiraj University
In Thailand, clinical pathology is taught as a pre-clinical subject for 3rd year medical students. At Faculty of Medicine, Vajira Hospital, there are approximately 80 medical students for each academic year.
The objective of this study is to compare the outcome of student cognition between an additional active learning exercise and only a passive lecture.
In a traditional lecture, an implementation of an active learning with a lecture can enhance cognitive outcomes suggesting that this tool promotes interests and engagement of students as well as their understanding before and after a lecture. Interpersonal skill and team work were also created during small group post-test discussion.
An active learning such as an online smartphone-based pretest and the crossword puzzle game post-test can be used to improve cognitive outcomes of medical students.
This retrospective study compared the outcome of 3rd -year medical students during academic year 2012 and 2013. For the former group, students were offered a 2 hours lecture while the latter group was offered a 10-minute online smartphone-based pretest before the lecture started. After 1.5 hours of lecture, students were divided into small groups of 4-6 people, and each group was participated in the crossword puzzle game which was used as a post-test to review their knowledge.
Data collected from this study was analyzed by Mann-Whitney U test. There was no significant difference in the difficulty index of MCQ as well as the total scores and GPAs of both groups. The score of the second group was significantly higher than the first group (p-value < 0.001). In addition, KR-20 of all tests was more than 0.7.
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