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Undergraduate physiotherapy students’ performance in theoretical and practical examinations: A correlational case study in the UAE
Date
2019
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Publisher
The British University in Dubai
Abstract
The study aimed at finding the correlation between the theoretical and the
practical examinations marks of first year physiotherapy students and explore
the possible contributory factors for any differences in exam performances.
Mixed approach was used and correlation was analysed using Microsoft excel
2013 and interviews were employed to explore the factors associated with good
or poor performances in the written and objective structured clinical
examinations. There were no significant differences in the scores of theory and
practical exams for the whole participants as the means of the former (40.05)
and later (40.03) were nearly equal and the r value (0.672) indicated moderate
positive correlation but individual differences in performances between the
written and objective structured clinical examination noticed. Students and
lecturers were interviewed and the qualitative data analysis identified factors
associated with assessment methods, instructional strategies and learning styles
were contributing for good and poor performances in the theoretical and
practical examinations.
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Keywords
Physiotherapy students, theory-practice gap, learning styles,
instructional strategies.
Citation
Ramakrishnan, S & Abukari, A 2019, 'Undergraduate physiotherapy students’ performance in theoretical and practical examinations: A correlational case study in the UAE', Journal for Researching Education Practice and Theory (JREPT), vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 4-33.