EVALUATION OF BLENDED APPROACHES IN BASIC FIRST AID TEACHING: SIMULATION, FLIPPED CLASSROOM AND TRADITIONAL METHOD
Abstract
With the increasing use of technology in education, new learning and teaching approaches have begun to emerge. In order to choose an effective teaching method, it has become important to determine students’ opinions and satisfaction levels towards these methods. This study aims to determine student evaluations and satisfaction levels towards simulation, flipped classroom, and traditional teaching methods used in teaching “Basic First Aid” courses and the relationship between them. This quasi-experimental study was conducted with 150 university students who took the Basic First Aid course. The data were obtained with the demographic data form, the ‘Training Practice Evaluation Form’ aiming to evaluate the training method of the students, and the ‘Satisfaction with Training Methods Questionnaire’ aiming to define the students’ satisfaction with the training method. Descriptive and comparative analyses were used to evaluate the data. The mean score of the Training Practice Evaluation Form was 49.97±13.68 and the mean score of the Satisfaction with Training Methods Questionnaire was 54.55±16.07. There was no statistical significance between the scales in terms of different teaching methods used. It was determined that the participants evaluated the teaching method used in the Basic First Aid course positively and their satisfaction levels were high.
Keywords
First aid, training models, teaching, satisfaction
Supporting Institution
This study has not received any support from any funding agency in the public commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Ethical Statement
The research protocol was evaluated by the Health Sciences University Hamidiye Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Committee and found appropriate in terms of medical ethics with the decision number dated 29.06.2020.
Thanks
The authors are grateful to students who consented to participate in this study.
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