Structured self-directed learning session with facilitator-assigned groups, student-generated specific learning objectives, and Google Form MCQ assessment

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

This element is the SDL session format the article implemented for clinical anatomy topics. "The students were asked to make the Specific Learning Objectives (SLOs) using the resource material and study the topic accordingly for 30 min", after a 10-minute facilitator introduction, followed by comparison of student SLOs with facilitator SLOs and discussion. Resources included "books, the internet, cadavers, and bones". Assessment used a mandatory single-response MCQ delivered through a Google Form live for 10 minutes, with answers and explanations displayed afterward.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Groups each assigned a separate facilitator
• Provided resource material (textbooks, reference material, handouts, books, internet, cadavers, bones)
• Google Form kept live for 10 minutes for the MCQ

Constraints

• Studied in 1-hour sessions on single peripheral-nerve-injury topics with first-year MBBS students

Target Learners

• First-year MBBS (medical) students, ages 18–25

Learning Goals

• Clinical anatomy knowledge (median and radial nerve injury)
• Self-directed learning skills such as setting learning objectives

Claims

• Sdl Posttest Scores Exceed Didactic Lecture Clinical Anatomy [+M]
• Sdl Four Week Retention Exceeds Didactic Lecture [+M]

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Key Sources

• Arora Samridhi, Shingne Ranjana, Ravi Sathyanarayan Kelegere, Jha Indira. (2025). Comparison of Self-directed Learning and Didactic Lecture in Teaching Clinical Anatomy to 1st Year MBBS Students. Annals of African Medicine. https://doi.org/10.4103/aam.aam_104_25

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title	Structured self-directed learning session with facilitator-assigned groups, student-generated specific learning objectives, and Google Form MCQ assessment
description	This element is the SDL session format the article implemented for clinical anatomy topics.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-05
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