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Collaborative learning: Elements encouraging and hindering deep approach to learning and use of elaboration strategies

The purpose of this research was to investigate students' approaches to learning and use of cognitive strategies in a collaborative learning environment with team-based learning. In a mixed-methods study, 263 medical students from 6 different semesters answered the R-SPQ-2F Questionnaire and MS...

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Published in:Medical teacher 2020-11, Vol.42 (11), p.1261-1269
Main Authors: Pires, Elda Maria Stafuzza Gonçalves, Daniel-Filho, Durval Anibal, de Nooijer, Jascha, Dolmans, Diana H. J. M.
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Language:English
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Summary:The purpose of this research was to investigate students' approaches to learning and use of cognitive strategies in a collaborative learning environment with team-based learning. In a mixed-methods study, 263 medical students from 6 different semesters answered the R-SPQ-2F Questionnaire and MSLQ's items that measure elaboration and rehearsal strategies. ANOVA was used to compare differences between semesters, and Pearson's correlation to investigate how approaches to learning, cognitive strategies, and academic achievement correlate. Focus groups elucidated which elements in the collaborative learning environment enhanced or hindered deep approach to learning or elaboration strategies and why. Students took a deep approach to learning and sometimes a surface approach. They used elaboration and rehearsal strategies. First semester's students had significantly higher deep approach than fifth and sixth semesters' students. Elaboration strategies significantly correlated with final grade. Commitment to the group, case discussions, feeling challenged by teachers, and patients' visits were perceived to enhance deep approach to learning and use of elaboration strategies, while overload in course activities hindered deep approach to learning. Particular elements of the learning environment triggered students to take deep approach to learning and use elaboration strategies, and this positively correlated to academic achievement.
ISSN:0142-159X
1466-187X
DOI:10.1080/0142159X.2020.1801996