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Student Consultation on Mobile Learning: methods,
messages and musings
Ceri Coulby Educational Staff Development Officer
Viktoria Sargent
Research Officer
www.alps-cetl.ac.uk
Poll Question
• When do you think students should be consulted on their OWN curriculum?– Pre-course start– Regular reviews throughout course– Post course– They shouldn’t be consulted
About the Projects• University of
Leeds• Final Year Medical
Students• 14 Re-Sit
Placements• PDAs for Mini-CEX
•ALPS*•900 Mobile Devices (PDAs)•16 Health and Social Care Professions•Assessment Tool
*Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings CETL: Universities of Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and York St John and Leeds Metropolitan Universities
Methods of Consultation• Initial PDA trial
(pre-placement)
• Post placement:Focus Groups and evaluative questionnaires
•All PRE-assessment toolbeing rolled out
•Workshop: Watched Scenario and Feedback
•Focus Group
•Simulation Exercise
Findings – Mini-CEX• “Typing was time consuming”
• “I think having an email/ phone number for support is important. I didn’t use this, but felt reassured that it was there”
• “My suggestion would be to keep the format simple and the number of assessments reasonable”
• “I have really enjoyed this placement. As compared to other placements I think I had a clearer sense of my goals and what I wanted to achieve. I really felt supported by people on the team and felt learning opportunities were made easily available”
IMPACT
• Scaled project for entire final year• Reduced the number of
assessments• Told students to use audio to
record feedback• Produced online training materials• Revised evaluation
Findings - ALPS
• “If the patient wanted to say something negative…then how does that student respond to that? And who’s going to support that student to deal with that afterwards?”
• “The assessment is usable although I feel the wording needs to be altered. The questions were appropriate – the multiple choice answers need to be decreased as they are too broad”
• “I feel the assessment would work well in practice if the student had full control of their own PDA and it was not used in a way which would place the student under more pressure”
IMPACT
• Recommendation that assessors receive service user feedback as opposed to students
• Language of assessment tool• Revised protocol for tool use• Guidelines for mobile device use• Further consultations
Negatives- Students do not always turn up!
- By consulting PRE- project, it takes longer to get anything produced. i.e. Assessment tool – continuous consultations
- Can only be done without time-constraints (re-sit students – finite amount of time, assessment tool – less time pressured)
- PRE-project consultation...more stressful for project team– Requires more resources and time
Positives
+HOWEVER – saves re-write time, and increases success chance of the first run of the project
+Consulting at outset made students feel more involved – and more engaged as a result
+Students feel valued- and more willing to engage in research