Application of Team-Based Learning as a Teaching Method in Nursing Education

摘要

This study is a descriptive survey research examining academic achievement, perception of the learner, accountability, preference and satisfaction after Team-Based Learning (TBL). The study was conducted with 184 students who had TBL class on digestive disease nursing in adult nursing among the second year nursing students in K University. TBL class was proceeded in seven stages: the first stage was preparation; the second stage was Individual Readiness Assurance Test (IRAT); the third stage was Group Readiness Assurance Test (GRAT); the fourth stage was to check correct answers and feedback from the professor; the fifth stage was a traditional lecture summary class; the sixth stage was case application and presentation; and the seventh stage was to write a self-reflection log. Each session lasted for three hours. For this class, eight topics about nursing the patients with digestive diseases in adult nursing were used. According to the study, the academic achievement significantly increased in terms of GRAT (t = -29.20, p .001). Academic achievement according to academic achievement level was significant in IRAT (F = 15.90, p = .001), GRAT (F = 5.47, p = .005), and difference (F = 4.30, p = .015). The perception of TBL and teamwork was not significant (F = 1.32, p = .270) (F = 1.15, p = .318). But the mean of the perception of TBL and teamwork increased marginally in order of achievement level fail, pass, honor and high pass group. The means of TBL-SAI subscales, i.e., accountability (30.23 +/- 4.49), preference (50.27 +/- 4.48), satisfaction (31.50 +/- 4.88) and total TBL-SAI score (113.00 +/- 10.94) were more than neutral. Accountability, preference, satisfaction and total TBL-SAI score according to academic achievement level were not significant. Therefore, TBL is considered as an effective pedagogic method using communication with teammates and professors in nursing education and it is necessary to conduct further research on guidelines and effective verification of invigorated TBL.