Table 1 Participant performance in lecture-specific assignments in a massive open online course on biomedical research in India, 2019-2020 (N=15,879)
Lectures | Medical PGs (N=13,242) | Medical faculty (N=2637) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
% Submission | % Pass | Score [Mean (SD)] | % Submission | % Pass | Score [Mean (SD)] | |
Introduction | 82.1 | 99.6 | 89.4 (10.4) | 46.3 | 99.5 | 88.9 (11.1) |
Research question | 81.5 | 99.1 | 88.2 (11.1) | 43.9 | 98.4 | 86.9 (13.7) |
Literature review | 81.3 | 99.7 | 93.4 (9.6) | 43.1 | 99.6 | 91.1 (11.8) |
Designing study | 81.2 | 99.3 | 84.5 (12.8) | 42.2 | 98.4 | 84.4 (14.5) |
Disease frequency | 81.2 | 98.9 | 81.0 (13.1) | 41.9 | 97.1 | 79.5 (15.2) |
Descriptive study | 81.0 | 99.6 | 94.1 (9.8) | 41.5 | 98.8 | 91.4 (12.8) |
Experimental study | 80.8 | 99.7 | 90.7 (9.7) | 41.2 | 99.5 | 89.6 (10.8) |
Validity | 80.8 | 99.5 | 92.6 (10.4) | 40.8 | 98.8 | 91.7 (12.7) |
Qualitative research | 80.6 | 98.9 | 92.3 (11.4) | 40.4 | 97.5 | 88.7 (15.5) |
Measurement of variables | 80.7 | 99.7 | 94.8 (8.8) | 40.5 | 99.1 | 91.2 (12.4) |
Sampling | 80.6 | 99.0 | 94.9 (11.0) | 40.4 | 98.8 | 93.1 (12.2) |
Sample size & power | 80.4 | 98.7 | 86.2 (13.8) | 40.2 | 97.9 | 84.1 (15.5) |
Selection of study population | 80.5 | 99.8 | 94.0 (7.9) | 40.1 | 99.6 | 94.4 (8.8) |
Study plan | 80.5 | 99.8 | 94.9 (8.0) | 39.8 | 99.4 | 94.4 (9.7) |
Data collection tool | 80.4 | 99.2 | 87.7 (11.1) | 39.8 | 97.5 | 85.4 (15.0) |
Data collection | 80.3 | 99.9 | 96.5 (6.2) | 39.8 | 99.4 | 96.8 (8.0) |
Data management | 80.3 | 99.8 | 92.2 (8.3) | 39.8 | 99.3 | 90.7 (10.0) |
Data analysis | 80.2 | 99.7 | 94.3 (8.9) | 39.7 | 98.8 | 92.6 (12.4) |
Ethics | 80.3 | 99.4 | 84.0 (10.0) | 39.9 | 99.1 | 83.8 (11.5) |
Clinical trials | 80.3 | 99.3 | 88.2 (11.2) | 39.8 | 99.4 | 87.5 (11.9) |
Concept paper | 80.2 | 99.8 | 91.3 (9.5) | 39.7 | 99.3 | 92.4 (9.7) |
Protocol writing | 80.3 | 99.1 | 93.8 (11.4) | 39.7 | 99.1 | 91.4 (12.7) |
Publication ethics | 80.0 | 99.0 | 92.7 (11.6) | 39.3 | 99.6 | 95.5 (8.9) |