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Student Preferences Impact Outcome of Flipped Classroom in Dental Education
What is it?
A study looking at the relationship between how students feel about the flipped classroom model and their learning outcomes.
What problem does it aim to solve?
鈥淢any reports in dental education showed that student learning improved with the flipped classroom method. However, there are few reports that describe how different subsets of students may benefit from the flipped classroom.鈥� The researchers aimed to test the hypothesis that students who preferred the flipped classroom style did better on quizzes.
How does it work?
The researchers used a flipped classroom module used to teach first-year DDS students, and then analyzed their performance on the quizzes and their written assignments, as well as the time they spent studying and discussing the course materials and topics.
What are the findings?
Guided self-study that includes work that needs to be submitted strongly correlates with better academic performance in the course. 鈥淪tudents鈥� self-evaluated understanding of content significantly improved after finishing the assignment and discussion compared to finishing the pre-class activity alone鈥ur results indicated that students favoring the flipped classroom method spent more time on the assignment, understood the content better, and performed better on assessments than students who prefer traditional lectures.鈥�
What are the next steps?
Educators designing courses for professional students that include the flipped classroom method need to prioritize including components that engage students and require them to do some work throughout the course to demonstrate what they鈥檝e learned.
Source
Xiao, Nan, Der Thor, and Meixun Zheng. 2021.聽,听Education Sciences聽11, no. 4: 150.聽
Authors
Nan Xiao, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, 糖心vlog, San Francisco
Der Thor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, 糖心vlog, San Francisco
Meixun Zheng, Academic Affairs, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, 糖心vlog, San Francisco
