SynthesisBMC medical education2020
A meta-analysis of students' readiness assurance test performance with team-based learning.
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- Team-based learning in health professions education: an umbrella review.BMC medical education · 2024Pooled it
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- A pre - post quasi-experimental study of team-based learning effectiveness for Vietnamese nursing students.PloS one · 2025Article
- Enhancing academic performance and student engagement in health education: insights from Work Station Learning Activities (WSLA).BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Using team-based learning to optimize undergraduate family medicine clerkship training: mixed methods study.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Implementation of Team-Based Learning for a Clinical Module of the Ethiopian Undergraduate Anesthesia Curriculum and Students' Perspectives: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study.Advances in medical education and practice · 2023Article
- The effects of online Team-Based Learning on undergraduate nursing students' performance, attitudes and accountability during COVID-19 pandemic.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2022Article
- Meeting the challenge of teaching bioethics: a successful residency curricula utilizing Team-Based Learning.Annals of medicine · 2022Article
- In-Person or Online? The Effect of Delivery Mode on Team-Based Learning of Clinical Reasoning in a Family Medicine Clerkship.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Inserting an Erroneous Element in the Answer Key of Grouped Team Readiness Assurance Test in Team-Based Learning: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Clinical Toxicology.Advances in medical education and practice · 2022Article
- Applying team-based learning in a transnational post registration bachelor of nursing program in Singapore.BMC nursing · 2021Article
- Acceptance of team-based learning by students and faculty: A pilot study.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundTeam-based learning (TBL) is increasingly being utilized across medical fields by engaging students in small group discussions. The readiness assurance test (RAT) is an essential feature that differentiates TBL from problem-based learning (PBL) activity sequences. No publication has discussed differences in the RAT in TBL in medical schools. The purpose of this meta-analysis study was to examine the performance of learners in terms of group RAT (GRAT) and individual RAT (IRAT) scores in TBL for students of healthcare professions.
methodsDatabases, including PubMed and Cochrane were searched using several terms. We assessed the quality of included studies and conducted a meta-analysis.
resultsIn total, 11 studies with 1575 participants were identified. Quality assessment scores of these studies ranged 4 ~ 7. Mean GRAT scores were significantly higher than mean IRAT scores (standardized mean difference (SMD) = 2.027, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.657 ~ 2.486, p heterogeneity < 0.001). Although the test of subgroup differences was insignificant (p = 0.113), the nursing-only subgroup showed much better performance in the GRAT than the IRAT (SMD = 2.3CI: 95% CI = 2.0 ~ 2.6, I
conclusionsStudents achieved significantly higher scores for the GRAT than for the IRAT, especially the group which only included nursing students, which implies excellent collaboration in the group of nursing students.
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