Understanding Student Characteristics in the Development of Active Learning Strategies.

ABSTRACT: Student evaluations after non-lecture, active learning sessions at Michigan State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine, have yielded bipartite responses with one group responding favorably and the other group negatively. The purpose of this study was to understand the characteristics, motivation, and learning strategies of medical students that find value in, appreciate, and perceive active learning sessions to be beneficial and those of students that do not. We generated a survey, based on the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), that included questions regarding overall student motivations for learning, learning strategies that students employed throughout medical school, and their perceptions of active learning. Following an active learning session on hyperammo

SUBMITTER: Mehta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9270552 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature