ePoster
Abstract Title | Select your seat, Increase your grade: Does seating preference affect on learning achievement?
Theme
3BB The lecture and the flipped classroom
INSTITUTION
Hatyai Medical Education Center - Songkhla
CPIRD, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
Background
- Many factors influence on learning achievement such as media, light, sound, room temperature, learning styles (seat location, visual, auditory, kinesthetic/tactile), etc.
- From observation and previous studies, there is still controversy whether front seating is associated with learning outcomes.
- Objective : To determine the association between seating location and learning achievement
Summary of Work
- Cross sectional study was conducted.
- Study population: 80 of 4th and 5th year medical students
- Data collection by questionnaire.
- Independent variables: seating preference in lecture theater during Y3 (front, middle, back), gender, learning characteristic, grade point average (GPA) Y2 (own competence).
- Dependent variable: GPA-Y3 as learning achievement
- Statistical analysis : chi-square test, one-way ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis, multiple regression analysis
Conclusion
- Learning achievement depends on students' competence, not seating location.
- However, female and high competent students prefer front seat.
Take-home Messages
- There are no differences of learning achievement among seat location.
- Seat preference depends on individual and environmental factors.
Summary of Results