Performance Improvement in Examination by Re-Teaching the Underperforming Undergraduate Medical Students
Journal Title: International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Reserach - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: Poor performance by the undergraduate medical students in the paraclinical subjects like Pharmacology is because of the lack of clinical experience, inadequate guidance and other factors. Re-teaching and repeat examination of the difficult chapters can be the way to overcome such a situation faced by the students. Materials and Methods: The study was planned to re-teach chapters of Pharmacology to the underperforming undergraduate medical students (i.e. Students who scored <50% marks in the third semester examination in aggregate) by traditional method of teaching over a duration of four months, and a repeat examination was taken at the end of the re-teaching program. After submitting the informed consent form, some of the students attended the classes of re-teaching and appeared in repeat examination which was arranged at the end of the re-teaching program. They were classified as group I, while the other students who did not attend the re-teaching class but appear in the repeat examination were designated as group II. Repeat examination comprised of both written and viva components as per the structure of third semester examination for proper evaluation. The percent score secured by each of the students in repeat examination were calculated. Result: The mean of the percent score secured by the both of the groups were compared by Student’s unpaired t test (Group I: 56.39 ± 5.09 VS Group II: 43.17 ± 4.66) which shows that there is statistically significant improvement in performance in repeat examination by the students who attended the classes of re-teaching than who did not (P value <0.001). It can be concluded that these re-teaching classes are helpful in the enhancement of the performances of the students who perform poorly in their initial examination.
Authors and Affiliations
Manisha Das, Somnath Maity, Soma Gupta, Aparna Mondal, Sanat Kumar Dolui, Prithwijit Banerjee, Ranendra Kumar Roy
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