A STUDY ON THE MIDWIFERY STUDENT'S PERCEPTION OF THE CHILDREN’S CARE COURSE BY USING TEAM-BASED LEARNING IN COPARISON WITH CONVENTIONAL LEARNING

Applying novel educational techniques could enhance student’s motivation, and
it can affect their understanding in a course subject. Therefore to examine this hypothesis, the current
study aimed to examine and analyze the effects of the team based learning, and the conventional
learning methods on the midwifery student’s perception of the children’s care course.
Material & Methods: The current study is a semi-empirical research conducted on the undergraduate
midwifery students of the Urmia University of Medical Science during 1392-93 (2013-2014).
Students, randomly, are taught in two different categories of the team based learning and conventional
learning methods during their training courses. The students’ perception of the children’s care course
under team based learning was compared with their perception in the conventional learning group.
Results: The students’ perception of the course work planning and organising, communication skills
and relationship between the students and instructor, assignment presentation, examinations and
evaluations, learning and supplementary learning methods, results of the course, students effort and
participation in the course and effectiveness of the course in Team Based Learning method (TBL) was
better (P<0.05) than the conventional method.
Conclusions: According to the findings of the current study, it seems that in the team based learning
method (TBL), the students’ understanding of the children’s care course were higher than those of the
speech based method.