Impact of individual study on tutorial group discussion

van den Hurk, MM Dolmans, DHJM Wolfhagen, IHAP Muijtjens, AMM van der Vleuten, CPM

Mm. Van Den Hurk et al., Impact of individual study on tutorial group discussion, TEACH L MED, 11(4), 1999, pp. 196-201

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General & Internal Medicine

TEACHING AND LEARNING IN MEDICINE

1040-1334 → ACNP

11

4

1999

196 - 201

ISI

1040-1334(199923)11:4<196:IOISOT>2.0.ZU;2-S

Background: This research focuses on the relation between individual study and group discussion. In a problem-based curriculum it is expected that the way students prepare themselves during individual study (i.e., search and prepare the literature) will influence the quality of the reporting phase. Purpose: To investigate whether searching for different literature resource s and preparing the literature (by making summaries to explain the literatu re) affects the quality of the reporting phase. Method: A 23-item questionnaire was developed, reflecting 2 factors of the search phase and 1 factor of the preparing phase of the individual study.. Two factors (breadth and depth of the discussion) reflected the reporting p hase. Participants were Ist-year students (N = 195, 90%) at the Medical Sch ool of the Maastricht University in the Netherlands during the academic yea r 1997-1998. Results: Regression analyses show that the search phase and the preparing p hase explained 29% of the variance of the breadth and 38% of the depth of t he reporting phase Conclusions: Searching different literature resources has a small and negat ive impact on the qualify of the reporting phase. However preparing extensi vely for the next tutorial meeting is very important especially for the dep th of the reporting phase. Therefore, when new knowledge must be integrated in the tutorial group, students must be taught to prepare themselves by ma king summaries that are useful and effective during the discussion.