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Anna Ryan¹, Geoffrey J McColl¹, Richard O'Brien¹

¹Department of Medical Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Normative feedback may hinder learning for lower-achieving medical students, impacting test performance. Further research is needed to optimize feedback for self-regulated learning in medical education.

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Area of Science:

Medical Education
Learning Sciences
Health Professions Education

Background:

Self-regulation is crucial for professional practice in medicine.
Effective feedback strategies are needed to enhance medical students' self-regulated learning.
Understanding student responses to different feedback types is essential.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how medical students respond to various forms and content of written feedback.
To explore the impact of different feedback types on study behavior and knowledge acquisition.
To identify optimal feedback methods for improving self-regulated learning in medical students.

Main Methods:

Year 2 graduate-entry medical students participated in a study involving formative progress tests.
Students were randomized into three groups receiving different written feedback reports (content lists, certitude, normative comparisons).
A mixed-method approach analyzed progress test scores, exam results, study diaries, questionnaires, and interviews.

Main Results:

Feedback including normative comparisons led to poorer test performance in the lowest quartile of students.
This feedback type encouraged general study habits over examination-focused preparation.
Individualized feedback content requires further investigation for optimal learning outcomes.

Conclusions:

Medical students, despite perceived homogeneity, may react differently to normative feedback.
Caution is advised when providing comparative performance data to students.
More research is necessary to develop effective written feedback for enhancing self-regulated learning, especially for students needing the most support.