Identifying group metacognition associated with medical students' teamwork satisfaction in an online small group tutorial context.
BMC Med Educ
; 24(1): 1114, 2024 Oct 09.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-39385170
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Collaborative learning is an essential pedagogy in medical education, within which small group learning constitutes an integral component. Online small group teaching has been widely applied and blended with in-person sessions in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. This study examined whether group metacognition was associated with teamwork satisfaction in an online small group teaching curriculum for medical students.METHODS:
We enrolled medical students of the 2nd and 4th years during the 2021 fall semester after they participated in 3 consecutive sessions of online small group tutorials (SGTs), which have been implemented in our medical school for more than 20 years. The students completed a group metacognitive scale (GMS) and a teamwork satisfaction scale (TSS) after the sessions. We analyzed whether group metacognition in 4 dimensions (knowledge of cognition, planning, evaluating, and monitoring) could be connected with medical students' teamwork satisfaction using partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM).RESULTS:
A total of 263 medical students participated in this study. Both GMS and TSS exhibited good reliability and validity. Three of the 4 dimensions of group metacognition (cognition, planning, and evaluating) positively correlated with teamwork satisfaction (path coefficients 0.311, 0.279, and 0.21; p = 0.002, 0.002, and 0.043, respectively) following the online SGT curriculum, whereas the monitoring dimension did not (path coefficient 0.087; p = 0.357). The model achieved an adjusted R square of 0.683.CONCLUSION:
We discovered that group metacognition correlated positively with better teamwork satisfaction, supporting the importance of group metacognitive competency for online collaborative learning.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Students, Medical
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Education, Distance
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Metacognition
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
BMC Med Educ
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BMC med. educ
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BMC medical education
Journal subject:
EDUCACAO
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Taiwan
Country of publication:
United kingdom