| Level of experience |  |  | |
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 | Facilitated once (n= 8) | Facilitated > 1 (n= 17) | Student's t-test ( P value) | All facilitators ( n= 25) |
Facilitating the first theme | Â | Â | Â | Â |
How would you rate your first tutorial/facilitation session (i.e. Case 1)? 1 = dreadful 2 = satisfactory 3 = not sure 4 = good 5 = excellent | 3.8 ± 0.37 | 3.4 ± 0.26 | 0.387 | 3.5 ± 0.21 |
After facilitating your first 6 week theme, how do you feel generally about facilitation? 1 = hate it 2 = doing it because I have to 3 = ambivalent 4 = coping 5 = enthusiastic | 4.5 ± 0.27 | 4.6 ± 0.19 | 0.795 | 4.6 ± 0.15 |
After facilitating for one theme of 6 weeks, how did you feel about the PBL process in terms of promoting learning in Medicine? 1 = ineffective 2 = barely effective 3 = ambivalent 4 = good 5 = excellent | 4.3 ± 0.31 | 3.8 ± 0.20 | 0.195 | 3.9 ± 0.17 |
Once you had facilitated 1 theme, did the facilitator training make more sense in terms of understanding the role of the facilitator in small group PBL sessions? 1 = strongly disagree 2 = disagree 3 = not sure 4 = agree 5 = strongly agree | 3.6 ± 0.46 | 4.1 ± 0.12 | 0.331 | 4.0 ± 0.17 |
After facilitating 1 theme, did your opinion of PBL being beneficial in terms of student learning change? 1 = strongly disagree 2 = disagree 3 = not sure 4 = agree 5 = strongly agree | 3.0 ± 0.42 | 3.4 ± 0.26 | 0.462 | 3.3 ± 0.22 |
Facilitating with problem students 1 = strongly disagree 2 = disagree 3 = not sure 4 = agree 5 = strongly agree | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Did you ever find that a tutorial group was difficult to control in terms of your understanding of how a small group should function? | 1.8 ± 0.25 | 1.9 ± 0.17 | 0.663 | 1.8 ± 0.14 |
Did any student in one of your groups disrupt the group process? | 1.5 ± 0.27 | 3.1 ± 0.29 | 0.001* | 2.6 ± 0.26 |
Did any student in one of your groups not participate in the discussions? | 2.0 ± 0.33 | 3.1 ± 0.33 | 0.033* | 2.7 ± 0.26 |