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Table 7 Personal self-assessment (“How would you describe your level of knowledge about drug therapy for diabetes mellitus at the present time?” Scored 1 (very high level of knowledge) to 5 (I have no knowledge)

From: Self-directed learning can outperform direct instruction in the course of a modern German medical curriculum - results of a mixed methods trial

 

Pre-test

Post-test

 

Mean

Standard deviation

Mean

Standard deviation

E-learning (EL)

3.91

0.58

2.36

0.58

Seminar (SE)

3.76

0.50

2.47

0.60

Self-instructed learning (SL)

3.92

0.68

2.77

0.67

Lecture (VL)

3.80

0.73

2.69

0.58