Changes in Students' Use of Lifelong Learning Skills During a Problem-based Learning Project

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna C. Dunlap
Author(s):  
Gerry Geitz ◽  
Desirée Joosten - Ten Brinke ◽  
Paul Kirschner

Feedback has been shown to substantially influence students’ learning. However, not everything characterized as feedback is effective. Sustainable feedback places students in an active role in which they generate and use feedback from peers, self or others and aims at developing lifelong learning skills. First-year higher education students and tutors received sustainable feedback during their problem-based learning. To gain insights into how they perceived the sustainable feedback, students were probed via structured, open-ended questionnaires. While all participants positively valued the feedback, their personal characteristics, previous experience with feedback and concomitant perceptions appeared to have greatly influenced both tutors’ and students’ specific, individual behavior and responses. Conclusion is that sustainable feedback requires an evolving role of students and tutors with respect to sharing their perceptions of what feedback is, understanding the value and importance of feedback contributions of all participants, and developing the necessary skills to ask questions and give feedback.


2014 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 2030-2038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurhayat Çelebi ◽  
Hatice Özdemir ◽  
Özge Eliçin

2021 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 07006
Author(s):  
S. Chee Choy ◽  
Joanne Sau-Ching Yim ◽  
Daljeet Singh Sedhu ◽  
Azlinda Boheran Nudin

Teachers in Malaysia are expected to possess the necessary reflective skills to help them analyse and think through classroom situations that require diplomacy and sound judgement. This study examined the contributions of lifelong learning skills, self-assessment ability, self-belief, teaching awareness and reflective thinking in explaining the differences in teaching practices among Malaysian pre service teachers (PSTs). A mixed-methods approach was used to provide pragmatic knowledge that can be applied to further develop reflective thinking practices among PSTs. The sample of this study were 387 PSTs enrolled in Bachelor level programmes from which 11 of them volunteered to participate in the interviews. The quantitative data showed lifelong learning skills, self-belief, and teaching awareness had a significant relationship with reflective thinking. From the qualitative data analysis, PSTs were generally focused on the immediate challenge of becoming better teachers and were open to further education in time. Similarly, the results of the qualitative thread showed the PSTs were able to manage their planning, monitoring of students and evaluation of themselves and their relation to students, suggesting metacognitive awareness, a good indicator of established reflective thinking processes. Future studies will need to consider how this will influence how reflective thinking is carried out when they are practicing teachers.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Altaf Bandy

Abstract Background The benefits of student acquired Problem-based learning (PBL) skills in the preclinical phase might carry-on into the clinical phase and the application of these skills in the understanding of clinical subjects remains uncertain. Current study is aimed at exploring the perceptions of carry-on benefits of problem-based learning skills into the clinical phase. Methods Using a pre-validated questionnaire, the benefits of PBL skills in the clinical phase were evaluated by seven questions on a five-point Likert scale. A non- parametric test assessed variation between the groups. p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant for this study. Results The overall mean score of the perception of acquired preclinical benefits of PBL in clinical phase was 4.57±2.41; females demonstrating higher mean scores (4.86±2.15) as compared to male students(4.23±2.67). Overall, fifth-year students showed a high satisfaction(4.84±2.36) of the effective use of preclinical PBL skills in clinical courses. 5th-year female student’s perception of preclinical collaborative learning skill benefits in clinical courses was significantly(p<0.03) higher than male. Conclusions The study concludes that a substantial preclinical PBL educational strategy benefits are carried into the clinical phase especially the long-lasting self-direct learning, collaborative learning and problem-solving skills consistent with demanding abilities of a competent physician.


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