Dyadic explanations during preparatory self‐study enhance learning: A randomised controlled study.
Objectives: The objective of the present study was to investigate to which extent preparatory self‐study can be improved by encouraging students to engage in individual self‐explanations or dyadic explanations (ie in pairs). Individual self‐explanations refer to an act of metacognition in which stud...
| Publicado en: | Medical Education Vol. 55; no. 9; pp. 1091 - 1100 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts randomized controlled trial Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2021
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=152023400&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 152023400 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 03080110 ESF jtl: Medical Education issn: 03080110 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Sep2021 vid: 55 iid: 9 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 152023400 149429934 152023400 152023400 10.1111/medu.14519 152023400 ppf: 1091 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Dyadic explanations during preparatory self‐study enhance learning: A randomised controlled study. aug: au: Rotgans, Jerome I. Cleland, Jennifer A. affil: Medical Education Research and Scholarship Unit, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore City, Singapore sug: subj: Self-Directed Learning Learning Methods Education, Medical Peer Group Human Randomized Controlled Trials Students, Medical Videorecording Protein Synthesis Inhibitors Memory Analysis of Variance Outcomes of Education Random Assignment Descriptive Statistics ab: Objectives: The objective of the present study was to investigate to which extent preparatory self‐study can be improved by encouraging students to engage in individual self‐explanations or dyadic explanations (ie in pairs). Individual self‐explanations refer to an act of metacognition in which students, after having processed a certain amount of information, attempt to explain their understanding to themselves of what was just learned. Dyadic explanations refer to the same process, but instead of explaining to oneself, the student explains his/her understanding to another student. Method: An experiment was conducted in which 120 medical students studied a video‐recorded lecture on the role of protein synthesis inhibition on memory reconsolidation. Participants were randomly allocated to one of four conditions: (1) a control condition in which they listened to the lecture once; (2) a control condition in which they listened to the lecture twice; (3) an experimental condition in which they had to listen to the lecture and provide self‐explanations individually; and (4) an experimental condition in which they had to listen to the lecture and provide dyadic explanations. Participants' knowledge regarding the topic was measured three times: at the start and end of the experiment, and one week after the experiment to determine knowledge retention. Data were analysed by means of a 2 × 2 and 4 × 3 repeated‐measures ANOVA. Results: The results suggest that participants who engaged in individual self‐ or dyadic explanations significantly outperformed participants in the two control conditions in terms of learning and retention (F = 5.67, Wilks Λ = 0.94, P =.019, η2 = 0.05). Moreover, the results suggest that dyadic explanations were more effective than individual self‐explanations (F = 3.70, Wilks Λ = 0.83, P =.002, η2 = 0.09). Conclusions: These outcomes suggest that encouraging students to work in pairs or in small teams to prepare for a learning event results in superior preparation and learning. The study explores how dyadic explanations (i.e., working in pairs) during preparatory self‐study enhances learning and retention of study materials. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts randomized controlled trial Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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