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Pre-Clinical Year Medical Students’ Perception On The Usage Of Kahoot! Quiz Challenge As Post-Pbl Assessment
Abdul Nasir Nurul Alimah1, Mohd Tambeh Siti Norashikin2, Effat Omar3.
Formative assessment is an important tool to gauge the
competence and performance of a medical student. This type of assessment
enable the students to identify their strengths and weaknesses in order to
improve their learning. The feedback given to students will motivate them
to achieve their learning goals. The advancement of technology increases
the usage of online-based assessment as it is more relevant and appealing
especially to the younger generation. Online-based assessment such as
Kahoot! offers immediate feedback and enhances the students’ critical
thinking and problem solving skills in a fun environment. These skills are
important to be assessed especially following Problem-based Learning
(PBL) sessions. PBL is adapted in many medical schools worlwide. Due
to the nature of extensive learning objectives in PBL, it is important to
have a practical formative assessment like quizzes in Kahoot! platform to
assess the students’ understanding. This study investigates the pre- clinical
medical students’ perception about Kahoot! quiz challenge as a formative
assessment tool following PBL sessions.
Summary of work: Kahoot! quiz challenge was done following the
completion of the second session of PBL in pre-clinical medical students. The
quiz consisted questions related to the learning objectives of that particular
PBL session from various subjects. At the end of the year, an online survey
was carried out on the pre-clinical medical students on their perception
of kahoot! Quiz challenge following PBL session. The modified validated
questionnaire used has 12 items related to the students’ perception on
Kahoot! quiz challenge. Each item consists of 5-point scale; ranging from
1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) in which the students must rate
each item. The data were then analysed, descriptive statistics and Mann-
Whitney test was performed.
Summary of results: A total of 243 students participated in this survey
with a majority of female respondents (76.1%). All the items in the survey
has the median score of 4 in which the students agree that Kahoot! quiz
challenge helped them to focus on the subjects, motivates them to learn,
enhances their understanding, simplifies complex subject and facilitates
learning. The students also agreed that Kahoot! quiz challenge is fun, more
enganging and is effective in providing feedback.
Conclusions: Kahoot! quiz challenge is useful as a formative assessment in
PBL. It helped the students’ understanding and also motivated them to learn.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi MARA (Selangor) Kampus Shah Alam, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA (Selangor) Kampus Shah Alam, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA (Selangor) Kampus Shah Alam, Malaysia
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