PURPOSE We tested the effect of team-based learning (TBL) on medical education through the second-year premedical students' TBL scores in biochemistry classes over 5 years. METHODS We analyzed the results based on test scores before and after the students' debate. The groups of students for statistical analysis were divided as follows: group 1 comprised the top-ranked students, group 3 compri...

background: objective structured clinical examination (osce) is one of the most preferable means of evaluating cognitive, emotional and psychomotor aspects of nursing students. the present study was designed to determine the reliability and validity of osce in evaluating clinical skills of nursing students. materials and methods: for this descriptive evaluative study, 10 different skills of nur...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify the causal relationship between the following variables: basic science score, written examination score (Internal medicine and Pediatrics), clinical clerkship score (Internal medicine and Pediatrics), and affective factors (self-efficacy, anxiety, and perception of preparedness). METHODS Forty-two medical students took the clinical performance...

for the purpose of studying the effects of pathological and normal grief on the prevalence of mental disorders among adolescents. 164 intermediate and highschool students were administered a grief inventory and a questionnarire assessing mental disorders. among the study group 83 students had experienced the death of one of their family members (mostly fathers), and 81 did not have such experie...

Giuliodori MJ, Lujan HL, DiCarlo SE. Collaborative group testing benefits highand low-performing students. Adv Physiol Educ 32: 274–278, 2008; doi:10.1152/advan.00101.2007.—We used collaborative group testing in a veterinary physiology course (65 students) to test the hypothesis that all students (e.g., high-performing and low-performing students of each group) benefit from collaborative group ...

introduction. as, the importance of learning and study strategies in fostering academic achievement, which has generated a demand for assessing these behavior and because of the lack of information about the strategies use among college students, this study was determined to explore the learning and study strategies of medical, dentistry and pharmaceutics college students of mashad university o...

background it is believed that self-evaluation can empower students; help them to pick higher goals and to try harder to realize these targets. however, the nursing students’ self-evaluation on clinical skills has rarely been studied. objectives to investigate the correlation of nursing internship trainees’ self-evaluation of clinical skills with their teachers’ evaluation. conclusions the stud...

We used collaborative group testing in a veterinary physiology course (65 students) to test the hypothesis that all students (e.g., high-performing and low-performing students of each group) benefit from collaborative group testing. In this format, students answered questions in the traditional format as individuals. Immediately after completing the exam as individuals, students answered the sa...