Empowering Students towards Self-Directed Learning Using Multiple Choice Questions Construction as a Learning Tool in a Private Medical College: A Mixed Quantitative and Qualitative Study
Objective: To determine the effectiveness of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) construction as a learning tool for empowering the students towards self-directed learning. Study Design: Mixed quantitative and qualitative study. Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out at Department of Obs...
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| Language: | English |
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National University of Medical Sciences
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Life and Science |
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.lifenscience.org/index.php/life-and-science/article/view/212 |
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| Summary: | Objective: To determine the effectiveness of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) construction as a learning tool
for empowering the students towards self-directed learning.
Study Design: Mixed quantitative and qualitative study.
Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out at Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, CMH
st th Lahore Medical College, from 1 April to 30 September 2019.
Materials and Methods: All students of final year MBBS were divided into two groups. After a pre-test (test 1)
of MCQs, they attended a workshop on construction of MCQs, followed by construction and vetting of MCQs by
students. The students took a test (test 2) based on those MCQs and evaluated it, followed by post-test (test 3)
08 weeks later to assess deep learning. Semi structured in-depth interviews of 10 randomly selected students
based on 10 open ended questions were conducted about their perceptions of learning. Quantitative data
analysis was performed using SPSS version 17. A thematic analysis was performed for the qualitative data.
Results: Comparison of pre and post-tests yielded a p value of 0.013, which is statistically significant.
Comparison of the mean results of tests 1 and 2 yielded a p value of 0.001, which is also statistically significant.
The qualitative component of the study revealed that use of MCQ construction to enhance self-directed
learning was highly appreciated by the students as a learning tool.
Conclusion: MCQ construction when used as a learning tool improved the self-directed learning of the
students. Experience of construction of MCQs enhanced the cognitive skills of the students while being highly
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| ISSN: | 2521-0475 2708-2970 |