Table 1 Baseline characteristics of flipped classroom medical students and traditional lecture-based classroom students before propensity score matching (n = 113)
Variable | LB group (n = 68) | FC group (n = 45) | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n/mean | %/sd | n/mean | %/sd | ||
Age | 23.85 | (1.09) | 23.20 | (3.17) | 0.121 |
Sex | 0.606 | ||||
Male | 39 | (57.4%) | 28 | (62.2%) | |
Female | 29 | (42.6%) | 17 | (37.8%) | |
Admission route | 0.207 | ||||
Interview | 33 | (48.5%) | 16 | (35.6%) | |
Recommendation | 13 | (19.1%) | 7 | (15.6%) | |
Examination | 22 | (32.4%) | 22 | (48.9%) | |
Student Loan | 0.089 | ||||
Yes | 4 | (5.9%) | 7 | (15.6%) | |
No | 64 | (94.1%) | 38 | (84.4%) | |
Part-time job | 0.285 | ||||
Yes | 22 | (32.4%) | 19 | (42.2%) | |
No | 46 | (67.6%) | 26 | (57.8%) | |
Personalities (Big Five Mini-markers) | |||||
Extroversion | 46.12 | (10.59) | 42.02 | (11.77) | 0.056 |
Openness | 45.87 | (5.42) | 46.46 | (9.29) | 0.667 |
Neuroticism | 38.61 | (8.09) | 39.53 | (8.42) | 0.564 |
Conscientiousness | 48.60 | (6.98) | 49.66 | (7.81) | 0.451 |
Agreeableness | 54.28 | (7.05) | 53.58 | (7.07) | 0.606 |
Past academic performance | 4.39 | (0.95) | 4.83 | (0.78) | 0.011 |
Pre-course test score in the EBM class | 6.03 | (1.65) | 7.31 | (1.41) | < 0.001 |