Enhanced numeracy skills following team-based learning in United States pharmacy students: a longitudinal cohort study

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The literature suggests that the ability to numerate cannot be fully understood without accounting for the social context in which mathematical activity is represented. Team-based learning (TBL) is an andragogical approach with theoretical links to sociocultural and community-of-practice learning. This study aimed to quantitatively explore the impact of TBL instruction on numeracy development in 2 cohorts of pharmacy students and identify the impact of TBL instruction on numeracy development from a social perspective for healthcare education.

Methods

Two cohorts of students were administered the Health Science Reasoning Test-Numeracy (HSRT-N) before beginning pharmacy school. Two years after using TBL as the primary method of instruction, both comprehensive and domai

SUBMITTER: Carpenter RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9811131 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature