"Application of team-based learning combined with cased-based learning in the teaching of""surgical nursing"" in higher vocational colleges" / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To examine the effect of teaching surgical nursing using a team-based (TBL) combined with case-based learning (CBL) model on higher vocational students. Methods A total of 227 nursing students were investigated, and they were divided into the experimental group (n=97) and the control group (n=130) by simple random sampling. The TBL and CBL was applied in the experi-mental group, and the traditional 1ecture-based learning (LBL) was used in the control group. After the experiment teaching, a test and questionnaire were used to compare the teaching effect of experimental group and the control group. The data was analyzed by Independent-Samples T test and Chi-square test. Results The 97 students in the experimental group achieved higher mean test scores (89.18 ± 7.808) compared with the other participants' (85.53±11.033) in the control group and the difference was statistically significant (t=2.926, P=0.004). Assessments on participants' abilities, such as indepen-dent thinking, teamwork, communication, problem solving, active learning and so on, were significantly higher in the experimental group compared with the control group students and the difference was sta-tistically significant (P=0.000). Majority of the respondents (91students, 93.82%) noted that case-based, team-based learning was a better learning strategy compared to lecture-based learning. Most of the students (90 students, 92.78%) agreed that more such instruction activity should be organized in the future. Conclusions TBL combined with CBL has enhanced the students' learning achievement and improved their abilities of independent thinking, teamwork, communication, problem solving, autonomous learning and so on, and is welcome by the teachers and students.