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Mai Aoe1, Misa Nagata2, Masahiro Ueda3
1Faculty of Pharmacy, Osaka Ohtani University, 3-11-1, Nishikiorikita, Tondabayashi-city, Osaka 584-8540, Japan.
Introduction:
Various reports have been published regarding adoption of team-based learning (TBL) in pharmacy education. However, there is insufficient published evidence on the effect of student characteristics on student learning outcomes in a TBL curriculum. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effects of pre-study examination results and peer evaluation ratings on learning outcomes.
Methods:
The TBL strategy was adopted for a basic chemistry exercise for first-year students at a private pharmacy school in Japan (2012-2019). For the analysis, students were divided into four analytical groups according to quartiles of pre-study examination results. The students were further divided into the high-peer evaluation rating group and low-peer evaluation rating group. We compared the final exam performance results between these groups.
Results:
In all four groups by quartiles of pre-study examination results, the course final exam performance was higher for the high-peer evaluation rating students than for the low-peer evaluation rating students.
Conclusions:
Within the TBL framework, students with higher peer evaluation scores performed better on the final exam, regardless of the pre-study examination results.
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