Evaluation of Virtual Biochemistry Practicum on First Year Students at Faculty of Medicine Universitas Islam Indonesia

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10.2991/assehr.k.210930.052How to use a DOI?

Keywords

virtual practicum, teaching videos

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced all universities worldwide to adopt the virtual learning method as the new method of learning for students and lecturers, as applied in virtual practicum for Biochemistry. Virtual practicum is generally conducted for 110 minutes for each theme, starting with pre-test (10 minutes), introductory lectures (20 minutes), distribution of students to several breakout rooms (5 minutes), educational video playback accompanied by lecturer assistants in each BR (55 minutes), discussion with the lecturer (10 minutes), and post-test (10 minutes). On this basis, this research aims to evaluate virtual practicum methods on students’ knowledge. The research was designed as a cross sectional study using a mixed-method approach. It engaged first-year students who took the first course and were eligible (n = 177) as the research subjects. Subjects’ identity was disguised by a code for ease of identification. Their knowledge levels were taken from pre-test and post-test scores, which were analyzed by Wilcoxon test. Qualitative data were obtained from observation of learning records and subject comments in the evaluation questionnaire. The thematic analysis revealed that about 159 students had a higher post-test score than pre-test. There was a different knowledge level (p <0.0001) between before and after practicum. Their knowledge level before practicum was 70 (30 - 90) and after that it increased to 87 (50 - 100). Generally, the online practicum run smoothly. 32% subjects stated that they did not encounter any problems during the learning process, but a larger number of students complained about telecommunication signals (43%), lack of practicum duration (17%), preference on the offline system (7%), and others (1%). Hence, virtual learning using teaching videos can be used as an alternative learning method in biochemistry practicum.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nur Aini Djunet
AU  - Rizki Fajar Utami
AU  - Asri Hendrawati
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/01
TI  - Evaluation of Virtual Biochemistry Practicum on First Year Students at Faculty of Medicine Universitas Islam Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Education (ICME 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 277
EP  - 281
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210930.052
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210930.052
ID  - Djunet2021
ER  -