title: The effects of team-based learning techniques on nursing students' perception of the psycho-social climate of the classroom.
abstract: Background:Team-based learning is a structured type of cooperative learning that is becoming increasingly more popular in nursing education. This study compares levels of nursing students' perception of the psychosocial climate of the classroom between conventional lecture group and team-based learning group.Methods:In a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design 38 nursing students of second year participated. One half of the 16 sessions of cardiovascular disease nursing course sessions was taught by lectures and the second half with team-based learning. The modified college and university classroom environment inventory (CUCEI) was used to measure the perception of classroom environment. This was completed after the final lecture and TBL sessions.Results:Results revealed a significant difference in the mean scores of psycho-social climate for the TBL method (Mean (SD): 179.8(8.27)) versus the mean score for the lecture method (Mean (SD): 154.213.44)). Also, the results showed significant differences between the two groups in the innovation (p<0.001), student cohesiveness (p=0.01), cooperation (p<0.001) and equity (p= 0.03) sub-scales scores (p<0.05).Conclusion:This study provides evidence that team-based learning does have a positive effect on nursing students' perceptions of their psycho-social climate of the classroom.
authors.affiliation: PhD student in Medical Education, Department of medical education, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. koohestani.hr@tak.iums.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Hamid Reza
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Koohestani
authors.affiliation: MSc in Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Saveh University of Medical Sciences, Saveh, Iran. baghcheghinayereh@savehums.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Nayereh
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Baghcheghi
keywords: Classroom; Perception; Psycho-social climate; Team-based learning; nursing students