Delivery and use of individualised feedback in large class medical teaching

BMC Medical Education

Simon Wilkinson¹  Elizabeth Brodier²  Steven A Burr³ 

[1] Information Services Research and Learning Resources Division, King’s Meadow Campus, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2NR, UK;School of Biomedical Sciences, Medical School, Queen’s Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK;Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine & Dentistry, Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, UK

关键词: Blueprint;    Assessment;    Objective;    Feedback;   

Others  :  1138931
DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6920-13-63

 received in 2012-03-19, accepted in 2013-04-29,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Formative feedback that encourages self-directed learning in large class medical teaching is difficult to deliver. This study describes a new method, blueprinted feedback, and explores learner’s responses to assess its appropriate use within medical science teaching.

Methods

Mapping summative assessment items to their relevant learning objectives creates a blueprint which can be used on completion of the assessment to automatically create a list of objectives ranked by the attainment of the individual student. Two surveys targeted medical students in years 1, 2 and 3. The behaviour-based survey was released online several times, with 215 and 22 responses from year 2, and 187, 180 and 21 responses from year 3. The attitude-based survey was interviewer-administered and released once, with 22 responses from year 2 and 3, and 20 responses from year 1.

Results

88-96% of learners viewed the blueprinted feedback report, whilst 39% used the learning objectives to guide further learning. Females were significantly more likely to revisit learning objectives than males (p = 0.012). The most common reason for not continuing learning was a ‘hurdle mentality’ of focusing learning elsewhere once a module had been assessed.

Conclusions

Blueprinted feedback contains the key characteristics required for effective feedback so that with further education and support concerning its use, it could become a highly useful tool for the individual and teacher.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Burr et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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