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Table 1 The general characteristics of the enrolled studies

From: Team-based learning pedagogy enhances the quality of Chinese pharmacy education: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study ID

Year

Disciplines or curricula

Sample size (TBL/LBL)

Participant characteristics

Interventions

Comparisons

Outcome

Shang Z et al. [13]

2018

Pharmacotherapeutics

100 (50/50)

Clinical pharmacy students from University

Team-based Learning

Details of teaching process:

The responsibility of teachers including: laying out the discussion topic, raising the questions (or cases), organizing the post-tests and the questionnaires, and effectiveness evaluating.

The responsibility of student groups: preview, information searching, literature reading, group discussion, and summary report.

Lecture

Mao Y et al. [14]

2013

Drug evaluation and research

58 (28/30)

Pharmacy students from University

Team-based Learning

Details of teaching process:

The responsibility of teachers including: laying out the discussion topic, raising the questions, organizing the post-tests and the questionnaires, and effectiveness evaluating.

The responsibility of student groups:

Preview, information searching, literature reading, group discussion, and summary report.

Lecture

Feng X et al. [15]

2016

Pharmacy administration

123 (61/62)

Pharmacy students from University

Team-based Learning

Details of teaching process:

The responsibility of teachers including: laying out the discussion topic, organizing the pre-test (to evaluate the conditions of students’ preview), organizing the post-tests and the questionnaires, and effectiveness evaluating

The responsibility of student groups:

Preview, literature reading, group discussion, and summary report.

Lecture

Yan J et al. [16]

2016

Analytical chemistry

70 (35/35)

Pharmacy students from College

Team-based Learning

Details of teaching process:

The responsibility of teachers including: laying out the discussion topic, raising the questions, organizing the post-tests and the questionnaires, and effectiveness evaluating

The responsibility of student groups:

Preview, literature reading, group discussion, and summary report.

Lecture

Luo X et al. [17]

2017

Pharmaceutical chemistry

241 (124/117)

Pharmacy students from Secondary technical College

Team-based Learning

Details of teaching process:

The responsibility of teachers including: laying out the discussion topic, raising the questions, organizing the post-tests and the questionnaires, and effectiveness evaluating

The responsibility of student groups:

Preview, literature reading, group discussion, and summary report.

Lecture

Gao M et al. [18]

2015

Pharmaceutics and experiments

48 (23/25)

pharmacy students from University

Team-based Learning

Details of teaching process:

The responsibility of teachers including: laying out the discussion topic, raising the questions, organizing the pre-test (to evaluate the conditions of students’ preview), organizing the post-tests and effectiveness evaluating

The responsibility of student groups: preview, literature reading, group discussion for experiments operation, summarizing the points during experiments operation.

Lecture

Zhang H et al. [19]

2014

Medical functional experiments

50 (25/25)

pharmacy students from University

Team-based Learning

Details of teaching process:

The responsibility of teachers including: laying out the discussion topic, raising the questions, organizing the pre-test (to evaluate the conditions of students’ preview), organizing the post-tests and effectiveness evaluating.

The responsibility of student groups: preview, literature reading, group discussion for experiments operation, summarizing the points during experiments operation.

Lecture

Xie Z et al. [20]

2015

Processing of traditional Chinese medicine

180 (90/90)

Pharmacy students from College

Team-based Learning

Details of teaching process:

The responsibility of teachers including: laying out the discussion topic, raising the questions, organizing the post-tests and effectiveness evaluating.

The responsibility of student groups: preview, literature reading, group discussion for experiments operation, summarizing the points during experiments operation.

Lecture

Wu X et al. [21]

2017

Pharmacology

40 (20/20)

Oversea pharmacy students from University

Team-based Learning

Details of teaching process:

The responsibility of teachers including: laying out the discussion topic, raising the questions, organizing the pre-test (individual readiness assurance test), organizing the post-tests and effectiveness evaluating.

The responsibility of student groups: preview, information searching, literature reading, group discussion, and summary report.

Lecture

Yang T et al. [22]

2018

Physical Chemistry

135 (63/72)

Pharmacy students from College

Team-based Learning

Details of teaching process:

The responsibility of teachers including: laying out the discussion topic, raising the questions, organizing the pre-test (to evaluate the conditions of students’ preview), organizing the post-tests and the questionnaires, and effectiveness evaluating.

The responsibility of student groups: preview, information searching, literature reading, group discussion, and summary report.

Lecture

Yang X et al. [23]

2018

Medical biology experiments

64 (32/32)

Pharmacy students from University

Team-based Learning

Details of teaching process:

The responsibility of teachers including: laying out the discussion topic, raising the questions, organizing the post-tests and the questionnaires, and effectiveness evaluating.

The responsibility of student groups: preview, literature reading, group discussion for experiments operation, summarizing the points during experiments operation.

Lecture

Yi T et al. [24]

2018

Biochemistry

90 (45/45)

Pharmacy students from University

Team-based Learning

Details of teaching process:

The responsibility of teachers including: laying out the discussion topic, raising the questions, organizing the pre-test (to evaluate the conditions of students’ preview), organizing the post-tests and the questionnaires, and effectiveness evaluating.

The responsibility of student groups: preview, information searching, literature reading, group discussion, and summary report.

Lecture

  1. Notes: Theoretical tests scores; Questionnaires for assessing the effects of pedagogies on students’ qualities and abilitie