Paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education (TECH-EDU 2018), June 20-22, 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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• To assess students’
• self-regulation
• study routines
• learning preferences
• Potential relationships between these three variables.
• Exploratory study
• Undergraduate students
• Animal Reproduction course
• Veterinary Medicine integrated master degree
• at UTAD, Portugal.
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• Location in the course
• Pre-clinical / semiotics (6th : 12th semester)
• Active learning strategies in practical and theoretical classes
• Students reluctance lack of time & level of difficulty
• Flipped classroom (T) –A analysis of professional scenarios
• Technical skills development (Pr)
• Students assessed according to their technical expertise and also the ability to
develop higher levels of thinking
• Activities
• Cooperative groups
• Supported in moodle
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• To explore the students’ self-regulation, study routines and learning
preferences
• Questionnaire (moodle)
• 10 questions
• Set 1 –
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1. What is the method usually used to study during the semester
Usually concentrates the study a few days before assessments (in both the theoretical and
practical classes)
Regularly studies throughout the semester (in both the theoretical and practical classes)
Concentrates the study for the theoretical classes, but regularly studies for the practical
topics
None of the above
2. Do you usually prepare (study) in advance the topics to be addressed in the theoretical
classes
Yes
No
3. Do you usually prepare (study) in advance the topics to be addressed in the theoretical
classes
Yes
No
4. Please detail the reasons for your answers (in 2 & 3) open question
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• To explore the students’ self-regulation, study routines and learning
preferences
• Questionnaire (moodle)
• 10 questions
• Set 1
• Set 2
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5. Do you prefer the practical classes where
The teacher demonstrates the work to be done
The teacher contextualizes the core knowledge related to the class
The demonstration or contextualization of the topic are dispensed
6. How would you prefer to be the typology of the theoretical classes
Expositive, as in most courses up to now
That uses a discussion of a topic between students and teacher
Where the teacher focuses the most dificult aspects of a topic
Virtual or non-presential classes
7. Please detail the reasons for your answers (in 5 & 6) open question
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• To explore the students’ self-regulation, study routines and learning
preferences
• Questionnaire (moodle)
• 10 questions
• Set 1
• Set 2
• Set 3 – all open questions
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General information
8. What do you expect from this course?
9. What would you bring to this course?
10. Is there any thing you would like the teacher to know about you?
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• To explore the students’ self-regulation, study routines and learning
preferences
• Questionaire (moodle)
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• Short form of the Self-Control Scale (Tangney
et al., 2004)
• [13 items allowing to establish people’s
ability to exercise self-control, alter their
emotions and thoughts, and in particular
to override temptations and refrain from
acting]
• SPSS software, version 25
Student t-test
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• Respondents
• 79 (continuous evaluation)/94 students
• As the two questionnaires were filled at different moments, an overlapping of 93,7% between
the two questionnaires was achieved
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Respondents Filled the survey
SELF-REGULATION
SCALE [IN-CLASS]
ONLINE
SURVEY
Yes 57 62
No 6 1
Yes 17 17
No 3 3
TOTAL 74 79
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• Self-control scores in respondents according to gender
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N Average ± SEM Median Q1 Q3
Women 56 44.88 ± 1.03 45.00 40.00 49.00
Men 17 39.47 ± 2.02 40.00 36.00 44.00
Totals 73 43.62 ± 0.95 43.00 39.00 48.50
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• Study routines
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64,56
18,99
16,46
Study regularly for the practical classes
but concentrate the study for the theoretical
Concentrate their study a few days before
assessment in the theoretical and practical subjects
Study regularly throughout the semester
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• Study routines * self-control scores
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Study routine n Average ± SEM Median Q1 Q3
Concentrated for
both theroretical and
practical classes
13 39.15 ± 2.28a 39.00 36.00 45.00
Concentrate for
theoretical but not
for practical classes
49 44.10 ± 1.08 a,b 40.00 36.00 48.00
Study regularly for
theoretical and
practical classes
8 46.50 ± 1.76 b 47.00 43.50 49.50
P=0.046
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• Self-study before classes
• 56.69% vs. 13.92% for practical and theoretical classes
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Students concentrating their study a
few days before the assessment
• a large workload
• the unavailability of lecture notes on time
• “(…) it´s easier to have the teacher explaining
the topic before our study”
• “(…) the teacher says everything that is needed”
• students believes it unnecessary
• students believes it not a good method for
him/her.
Students concentrating the study only
for theoretical classes
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• it was easier to understand/achieve a good
performance if the practical work is prepared in
advance
• the limited time available to prepare both the
practical and theoretical classes
• “(…) is easier to take notes and listen to the professor
[...] and study afterwards”
• “(…) it is better to first listen to the teacher”
• Higher interest for the practical classes
• Not needed, because theoretical classes are
expositive
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• Students preparing themselves
before each class
• “… better understanding of the topics”
• “(…) to avoid accumulation of the study
material”
• “(…) to get better grades”
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• Learning preferences
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79,75
17,72
2,53
prefer the teacher to demonstrate the procedures
to be developed during the practical classes
prefer the teacher present a short theoretical
background review in the beginning of the practical
classes
prefer to start the practical classes hands-on
P>0.05
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Expositive
• Is easier to understand when the teacher
exposes the topic
• Enhanced confidence after demonstration
• “(…) I prefer when the teacher shows how to
work, because I am short-experienced”
• Difficulty in understanding some topic by them-
selves
As a discussion
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• More interesting
• “(...)while expositive classes are boring”
• “(…) are more dynamic and participative”
• “(…) they request (the student) to prepare himself
in advance”.
Focusing on difficult topics
• “(…) the more difficult topics should be addressed
in the class, as the easier ones could easily be
learned at home”
• “(…) this would facilitate learning of more difficult
issues”
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Students self-regulation may
affect their involvement &
expectations in active learning
Maturity vs. focus
Delay for higher gratification
Higher scores more self-studying
Type of subjects addressed in the classes
Prefer lecture-based than
discussions & hands-on activities