The Sandwich principle: assessing the didactic effect in lectures on "cleft lips and palates".

ABSTRACT:

Background

A teaching concept, that takes individual learning and personal belongings into account, is called the "sandwich principle." This didactic method is an educational concept that alternates consecutively between individual and collective learning phases during a course. This study aimed to prove whether the application of the sandwich principle in lectures increases the learning outcome compared with classical lectures.

Methods

All participants (n = 64) were randomly allocated into two groups. One group attended a classical face-to-face lecture and the other attended a lecture that was modified according to the sandwich principle, including activating elements. To compare knowledge gain after the lectures, all the participants had to answer a test comprising40 singl

SUBMITTER: Bock A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7493973 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature