Team-Based Learning as a Teaching Strategy of Community Health Nursing Course forUndergraduates

Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2019, Vol 7, Issue 1

Abstract

Team- Based Learning (TBL) isan instructional technique that promotes small-group learning andoffersan alternate to lectures in large-group settings. It consists of out-of-class preparation after that in-class readiness assurance tests and group application activities.The aim of this studywas to decide the efficiency of TBL in an undergraduate nursing course as regards the outcomes of academic performance, accountability of learning, predilection for lecture or TBL, and studentcontentment with TBL.A quantitative randomized controlled trial design was carried on 248 nursing undergraduates partaken in the TBL group andtraditional lecture control group at theFaculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt, during the second semester/academic year 2016-2017.A selfadministered structured questionnairesform covering demographic data, academic performance was measuredusing the community health nursing exam. In TBL group, accountability of learning,predilection for lecture or TBL, and studentcontentment was measured usingStandardized anonymous Survey Monkey of the TBL-SAI (Student Assessment Instrument questionnaire).The resultsshowed that in comparing TBL to lecture, TBL studentsrecorded significantly higher and TBL studentsconveyedmodest to highest standards of accountability, and higher predilection for TBL than lecture, contentmentwith TBL, and high levels of positiveunderstandings with TBL.Conclusions and recommendation,results showed that TBL is a satisfactory and effective instructional approach in teaching nursing undergraduatesas well as it is one of the self-directed learning methods that ensure better analytical and clinical-reasoning skills and needed to apply in all of the nursing courses.

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Rabab Gad Abd Elkader, Hanem Awad Mekhamier

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  • EP ID EP435143
  • DOI 10.9790/1959-0701020511.
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Rabab Gad Abd Elkader, Hanem Awad Mekhamier (2019). Team-Based Learning as a Teaching Strategy of Community Health Nursing Course forUndergraduates. IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science, 7(1), 5-11. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-435143