scholarly journals Perceptions, behaviours, barriers, and needs of flipped classroom learning: opinions of first-year pharmacy students

2021 ◽  
pp. 315-322
Author(s):  
Pei Se Wong ◽  
Ket Li Ho ◽  
Chee Fen Chia ◽  
Sook Han Ng ◽  
Hazwanie Hashim

Objective: To explore pharmacy students' experiences, barriers, and needs of first-year pharmacy students flipped classroom (FC) learning. Method: A qualitative study with focus groups was performed. Three focus group sessions with seventeen first-year pharmacy students were conducted. All sessions were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analysed for themes using an inductive thematic analysis approach. Results: Students, in general, found FC to be useful for learning and using a range of self-regulated learning strategies in the FC environment. Barriers identified were primarily to i-lectures and potentially hindered motivation and acceptance to pre-classroom preparation. Conclusions: There are students' reservations toward flipped classrooms attributed to individual motivation and barriers encountered. Students transitioning to flipped classroom approach require easy-to-learn and use pre-class learning materials tailored to students' level and preferences.

Author(s):  
Eva Mary Bures ◽  
Alexandra Barclay ◽  
Philip C Abrami ◽  
Elizabeth J Meyer

This study explores electronic portfolios and their potential to assess student literacy and self-regulated learning in elementary-aged children. Assessment tools were developed and include a holistic rubric that assigns a mark from 1 to 5 to self-regulated learning (SRL) and a mark to literacy, and an analytical rubric measuring multiple sub-scales of SRL and literacy. Participants in grades 4, 5 and 6 across two years created electronic portfolios, with n=369 volunteers. Some classes were excluded from statistical analyses in the first year due to low implementation and some individuals were excluded in both years, leaving n=251 included in analyses. All portfolios were coded by two coders, and the inter-rater reliability explored. During the first year Cohen’s kappa ranged from 0.70 to 0.79 for literacy and SRL overall, but some sub-scales were unacceptably weak. The second year showed improvement in Cohen’s kappa overall and especially for the sub-scales, reflecting improved implementation of the portfolios and use of the assessment tools. Validity was explored by comparing the relationship of portfolio scores to other measures, including the government scores on the open-response literacy questions for the Canadian Achievement Tests (version 4), the scores we assigned to the CAT-4s using our assessment tools, and scores on the Student Learning Strategies Questionnaire (SLSQ) measuring SRL. The portfolio literacy scores correlated (p


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Ünal Çakıroğlu ◽  
Mücahit Öztürk

AbstractConsiderable effort has been invested in innovative learning practices in English Foreign Language courses (EFL) in universities. Flipped classroom model transforms passive listeners into active learners in school and home activities pace. Flipped classroom model and the foreign language teaching methods are student-centred learning environments in which students should have a certain level of self-regulated learning skills. The study suggest a model for flipped classroom implementations with regard to self-regulated learning strategies in order to keep students more active in the EFL courses. Students were allowed to apply goal setting and planning, rehearsing, help seeking, monitoring, testing, time management, organising, regulating and note taking strategies within the model in online and face to face sessions. We hope the suggested model can contribute to improve listening, reading, writing and speaking skills of students in EFL courses.


Author(s):  
Brett M McCollum ◽  
Cassidy L Fleming ◽  
Kara M Plotnikoff ◽  
Darlene N Skagen

This study examines the effectiveness of flipped classrooms in chemistry, and identifies relationships as a major factor impacting the success of flipped instruction methods. Examination of student interview data reveals factors that affect the development of peer-peer, peer-peer leader, and peer-expert relationships in first-year general chemistry and second-year organic chemistry flipped classrooms. Success was measured in terms of student perceptions of the effectiveness of the instruction, as well as student academic development. Furthermore, analysis of research participant interviews reveals that academic reading circles, open-response multiple-attempt group quizzes, and peer leaders are important elements of a text-centric flipped approach at a small-classroom, commuter-campus university. Student reflections and classroom observations provide further support for these conclusions. Cet étude examine l’efficacité des salles de classe inversées en chimie et identifie la création de liens en tant que facteur important qui affecte la réussite des méthodes d’instruction inversée. L’examen des données provenant d’entrevues avec les étudiants révèle les facteurs qui affectent le développement des rapports d’étudiant à étudiant, d’étudiant à leader et d’étudiant à expert dans un cours inversé de chimie générale de première année et dans un cours de chimie organique de deuxième année. La réussite a été mesurée en termes de perceptions des étudiants de l’efficacité de l’instruction, ainsi que du développement académique des étudiants. De plus, l’analyse des entrevues des participants à la recherche révèle que les cercles de lecture universitaires, les tests de groupes à essais multiples et à réponses ouvertes, ainsi que les leaders de groupes sont des éléments importants d’une approche inversée centrée sur un texte en petite salle de classe, dans une université de banlieusards. Les réflexions des étudiants et les observations en salle de classe soutiennent également ces conclusions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mücahit Öztürk ◽  
Ünal Çakıroğlu

AbstractThis study examined the development of students’ language skills in a flipped English foreign language course designed with self-regulated learning strategies. The study was conducted with a quasi-experimental design. While the experimental group received the course through flipped classroom model designed with self-regulated learning strategies, control group did not use self-regulated learning strategies in the flipped classroom model. The results indicated that self-regulated learning strategies positively affected the development of foreign language skills in the flipped classroom model. A significant difference in favor of the group working with the platform including self-regulated learning strategies outperformed in speaking, reading, writing, and grammar test scores. However, no significant difference in the listening test results was found.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-130
Author(s):  
Elya Umi Hanik ◽  
Annisa Dita Ramadhani

This study aims to determine the process of implementing learning strategies with flipped classrooms as the implementation of blended learning in learning during the Covid-19 pandemic at MI NU Miftahul Falah Undaan Tengah. The research method used is descriptive qualitative method by conducting interviews with class teachers. The learning process is carried out by combining online and offline learning with 50% online and 50% offline presentations. Students who do offline learning are divided into 2 stages, where 50% of the students leave on the first day, and the other 50% on the second day and so on. With data collection techniques in the form of interviews and documentation, the results of the study indicated that the learning carried out with the flipped classroom blended learning strategy had several advantages and obstacles. [Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui proses penerapan strategi pembelajaran dengan flipped classroom sebagai implementasi dari blended learning pada pembelajaran di masa pandemi covid-19 di MI NU Miftahul Falah Undaan Tengah. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan melakukan wawancara kepada guru kelas. Proses pembelajaran dilakukan dengan memadukan pembelajaran secara daring dan luring dengan presentasi 50% secara daring dan 50% secara luring. Peserta didik yang melakukan pembelajaran secara luring dibagi menjadi 2 tahapan, dimana 50% jumlah peserta didik berangkat pada hari pertama, dan 50% yang lain pada hari kedua dan seterusnya. Dengan teknik pengumpulan data berupa wawancara dan dokumentasi, hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pembelajaran yang dilakukan dengan strategi flipped classroom blended learning ini terdapat beberapa keunggulan dan hambatan]


Author(s):  
Monika Andrea Zimanyi ◽  
Nicholas F. Emtage ◽  
Pamela Lee Megaw

To combat high failure rates in an Anatomy and Physiology for first year Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Sport Science students, a flipped classroom was introduced in 2015. It became apparent that students did not engage with materials prior to classes, but they did engage with in-class active learning strategies. In subsequent years of this study, our focus changed to delivery with student active learning in mind. The active learning approaches introduced resulted in improvements in academic performance for all three student cohorts. Occupational Therapy students’ marks improved by 12.9% when comparing pre-intervention (2014) results to the end of the post-intervention period (2017), Physiotherapy students’ marks increased by 6.9%, while the greatest gains of 14.8% were seen in Sport Science students. When investigating the relationship between student performance and university entrance scores, students with high entrance scores demonstrated modest gains in performance, while those students with lower entrance scores benefited the most. Our results suggest that the introduction of active learning may result in the transition of the learning style of students under-prepared for university studies, to be more like those of more successful students; that is, to a deeper level of learning.


2014 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio A. González-Pienda ◽  
Estrella Fernández ◽  
Ana Bernardo ◽  
José C. Núñez ◽  
Pedro Rosário

AbstractFollowing a pretest-posttest design with no control group, this paper evaluates the efficacy of an intervention program. Consisting of twelve sessions, the program endeavored to increase knowledge and use of self-regulated learning strategies, as well as study time, in 277 first-year students in the Spanish secondary education system. The intervention’s efficacy was assessed in terms of three variables: knowledge of self-regulated learning strategies, use of self-regulated learning strategies, and study time. The results of post-intervention data analysis indicate that statistically significant changes occurred in students’ knowledge of self-regulated learning strategies and weekly study time, but not in their use of self-regulated learning strategies. When the sample was stratified into three groups (high, moderate, and low) according to baseline scores on the dependent variables, our findings show that students in the lower group profited most from the intervention on all three variables. This suggests that participation in the program is especially useful for at-risk students (i.e. those with little knowledge and use of effective learning strategies).


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Ruixuan Ji ◽  
Xiaoyao Yue ◽  
Xu Zheng

Many research indicated that more and more students choose to drop out of mathematics-related subjects during university study, especially in the western context. Besides the difficulty of mathematics content, first-year university students also face issues of the transition period. Identifying the impact of first-year university students' belief factors on their persistence in mathematics study needed further research. This study served as a pilot study; it structured the framework of first-year university students’ mathematics-related beliefs in relation to students’ persistence on the further mathematics study. A two-stage approach of using PLS-SEM to assessing the conceptual framework was introduced in detail. The relationships of dimensions of students’ epistemological beliefs about mathematics, self-efficacy, self-regulated learning strategies and perceptions about learning environment were assessed. This study provides the feasibility for future follow-up studies to examine mathematics-related beliefs and intentions to continue learning among university students on a larger scale.


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