ERIC Number: EJ1169924
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 11
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Learning Approaches and Lecture Attendance of Medical Students
Bates, Madeleine; Curtis, Sally; Dismore, Harriet
Journal of Further and Higher Education, v42 n2 p248-258 2018
There are arguably many factors that affect the way a student learns. A recent report by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) on student academic experience in the UK states that class size is an important factor in the quality of the student experience and that smaller class sizes provide greater educational benefit than the delivery of lectures. This article assesses research related to lectures, lecture attendance of medical students and their learning approaches in higher education outside the clinical setting. A questionnaire and focus groups were employed to gather quantitative and qualitative data. The results show that students value lectures in the curriculum alongside other teaching and learning methods.
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Attendance, Medical Students, Learning Strategies, Questionnaires, Focus Groups, Likert Scales, Mixed Methods Research, Attendance Patterns, Student Surveys, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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