Table 5 Students’ perceptions of CWPs across the preferred learning style
From: Crossword puzzle as a learning tool to enhance learning about anticoagulant therapeutics
Perception Survey Items | Accommodator (N = 28) | Assimilator (N = 66) | Converger (N = 93) | Diverger (N = 34) | Multimodal (N = 41) | P-valuea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The CWP provided enhanced my learning | 4.00 (0.96) | 4.03 (0.94) | 4.04 (0.86) | 4.18 (0.90) | 3.85 (0.99) | 0.661 |
Enjoyed classmate interaction and reviewing material while solving the CWP. | 4.19 (0.68) | 4.11 (1.05) | 4.11 (0.84) | 4.15 (0.99) | 4.17 (1.00) | 0.991 |
CWP oriented us to the topics that we should focus on. | 3.89 (1.05) | 4.32 (0.81) | 4.05 (0.84) | 4.18 (0.94) | 4.07 (0.85) | 0.192 |
Length of time provided for solving the CWP was sufficient. | 3.74 (0.76) | 4.08 (1.04) | 3.99 (0.91) | 4.12 (0.98) | 3.88 (1.19) | 0.512 |
The material on the CWP was pertinent. | 3.74 (1.02) | 4.15 (0.81) | 3.99 (0.83) | 4.12 (0.88) | 3.73 (0.87) | 0.063 |
Learned more from the class because of the CWP. | 3.78 (0.97) | 3.92 (0.97) | 3.82 (0.88) | 3.91 (1.00) | 3.66 (0.91) | 0.66 |
Solving CWP is a good review of the material covered in the lecture. | 3.96 (0.98) | 4.11 (0.96) | 4.10 (0.79) | 4.32 (0.73) | 3.98 (0.88) | 0.437 |
Extra credit should be associated with activities such as a CWP. | 4.11 (0.80) | 4.05 (1.09) | 3.97 (1.03) | 4.03 (0.94) | 3.90 (0.92) | 0.91 |