Effect of small group teaching on the academic performance of first year MBBS students

International Journal of Biomedical and Advance Research

Sitalakshmi Ramadoss¹ 

关键词: Small group teaching;    internal assessment tests;    cases;    controls;   

DOI  :  10.7439/ijbar.v4i10.519

学科分类：药学、药理学、毒理学（综合）

来源: Scholar Science Journals

【 摘 要 】

Medical Council of India 2012 regulations allow only four attempts to students to clear first University professional examinations.? Some top achieving school students fail to perform well in medical colleges.? Indian studies on effectiveness of small group teaching (SGT) on academic performance of students are scanty. ? Objective: This study aimed to analyze the effect of SGT on first year MBBS students who scored less than 40% physiology internal assessment tests (IAT).? Out of 99 students, 45 cases (less than 40% marks in IAT) were identified and the remaining 54(more than 40% marks) were controls.? Methods: SGT as remedial teaching was applied to the cases.? Results: The marks of the controls were significantly higher (p=0.001) than cases before SGT.? The marks of cases before and after SGT were 36.41 ?3.76 and 51.93?6.34.? Paired ???test revealed statistically significant increase in marks.? Cases showed a gain score of 15.52 marks.? SGT benefitted both girls (36.99?3.66 and 53.3?6.43) and boys (36.54?3.45 and 53.01?6.6.0) equally. Conclusion: SGT as remedial teaching is highly effective in promoting student- centered learning and needs to be implemented in all medical colleges uniformly.

【 授权许可】

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