How do our students learn clinical engineering? A pilot study
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Cruz, Antonio Miguel | 2017
This paper aims to measure what are the students’
perceived learning outcome achievements after finishing their
clinical engineering major courses. This is a pre- post-test with no
control group study design. Forty students were involved in this
pilot study. A paper-based survey composed of a demographic
section and a 5-point Likert (“1” is strongly disagree and “5” is
strongly agree) section measured the students’ perceived learning
outcome achievements after exposing them to clinical engineering
major courses. A Wilcoxon signed-rank and Mann-Whitney U test
statistics were conducted to test the two hypotheses of this study.
Our analysis showed statistically significant results between the
pre-survey mean and SD: 21.10 SD 3.54; and between the postsurvey mean and SD: 22.75 SD 3.68 (Z -2.12, p<0.033), indicating
that overall, students’ perceived learning outcome achievements
after exposing them to clinical engineering major courses had
significantly improved by the end of the major. Also, statistically
significant results were found between the post-survey mean and
SD: 3.94 SD 0.61 learning outcome perceptions and between the
students’ actual marks mean and SD: 4.53 SD 0.22 (-5.00, p<0.000),
indicating the students had low confidence in their learning
outcomes after completing their clinical engineering major.
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