Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Advanced ICT and Education

Project Study Program Development and Satisfaction Survey for Premedical Years at a medical school in Korea

Authors
Soo-Koung Jun
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Soo-Koung Jun
Available Online August 2013.
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10.2991/icaicte.2013.134How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Portfolio. Project study Program, Premedical Course, PBL
Abstract

The aim of this study was to develop and describe the implementation of the project study program using an evaluation tool with portfolio in the premedical course. In 2006 the structured questionnaire was given out to 46 students in order to explore their opinions and satisfaction. This course was implemented at the first semester of the year premedical year), featured with small group activities, selection of a research theme of any kind and carrying it out for one semester. Students did not responded positively to the satisfaction survey questionnaires, which was in average around 3.5 in 5 point Likert scale. Students reported that it was beneficial to implement a research and write a paper while they felt more difficult to select the research themes by themselves mainly because of their limited opportunity of independent study. This project study program utilizing a portfolio technique was needed to be developed in a way to boost up the satisfaction level of students. It is expected that in the further research, the effectiveness of this program which would develop students' learning ability in the cooperation with other students as a team and their attitude of valuing the process than the result through portfolio evaluation should be testified.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Advanced ICT and Education
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
August 2013
ISBN
978-90786-77-79-6
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/icaicte.2013.134How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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