Table 1 Characteristics of the included studies
From: A meta-analysis of students’ readiness assurance test performance with team-based learning
First author and year publication | Disciplines | Study design | TBL participants and F: M ratio | Source of participants | Student performance | Scoring system for the RAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cheng CY (2014) [15] | Single discipline | Cohort study (Pre-post-test) | 387 F: M N/A | adult health nursing, maternal-child nursing, community health nursing, medical-surgical nursing students | IRAT 64.32 ± 12.71 GRAT 88.65 ± 5.52 | Percentage |
Farland MZ (2018) | Single discipline | Cohort study (retrospective) | 442 F: M N/A | pharmacy resident students | IRAT 16.18 ± 2.45 GRAT 18.80 ± 1.68 | Ranged 0 ~ 20 points |
Goolsarran N (2018) [16] | Multidisciplinary | Cohort study | 76 F: M N/A | internal medicine intern and senior nursing students | IRAT 5.6 ± 1.7 GRAT 7.7 ± 1.8 | Ranged 0 ~ 10 |
Hemmati Maslakpak M (2015) | Single discipline | Quasi-experimental study (TBL in intervention group; Lecture in control group) | 32 F: M 16: 6 | third year nursing students | IRAT 25.05 ± 3.36 GRAT 31.68 ± 1.33 | N/A |
Huang Z (2016) | Single discipline | Cohort study | 99 F: M N/A | clinical medicine program students | IRAT 63.78 ± 9.30 GRAT 75.65 ± 7.40 | Percentage |
Lochner L (2018) | Multidisciplinary | Cohort study | 39 F: M N/A | nursing, dietetics and nutrition, occupational therapy, radiology techniques, laboratory techniques students | IRAT 10.59 ± 0.65 GRAT 14 ± 0.5773 | Ranged 0 ~ 14 points |
Luetmer MT (2018) [17] | Multidisciplinary | Cohort study | 81 F: M N/A | first year medical and physical therapy students | IRAT 69.9 ± 8.6 GRAT 95.2 ± 10.2 | Percentage |
Nishigawa K (2017) | Single discipline | Cohort study | 256 F: M N/A | third- and fourth-year dental students | IRAT 63.1 ± 13.7 GRAT 77.8 ± 9.9 | Percentage |
Park HR (2015) [18] | Single discipline | Cohort study | 74 F: M 68: 6 | second-year nursing students | IRAT 80.47 ± 10.76 GRAT 96.44 ± 2.23 | Percentage |
Park SE (2018) | Single discipline | Cohort study | 34 F: M N/A | second year dental students | IRAT 49.87 ± 16.045 GRAT 87.95 ± 8.345 | Percentage |
Zeng R (2017) [19] | Single discipline | Randomized Controlled Trails (TBL in intervention group; Lecture in control group) | 55 F: M 27: 28 | third year medical undergraduates | IRAT 16.56 ± 3.89 GRAT 25 ± 1.05 | N/A |