Table 3 Attitudes and Perceptions about Use of Active Learning in Continuing Medical Education Unit Leaders in the U.S. and Canada During 2019 Using Descriptive Statistics and Cronbach’s alpha from Survey Questions
From: Making it stick: use of active learning strategies in continuing medical education
Attitudes about Active Learning | Strongly Agree/Agree | Neither Agree nor Disagree | Disagree/ Strongly Disagree |
|---|---|---|---|
AL combines engagement and observation with reflection | 94.2% (114) | 3.3% (4) | 2.5% (3) |
The learner is engaged so that both knowledge gained and recall are increased in AL | 93.4% (113) | 5.8% (7) | 0.8% (1) |
Both the instructor and the learners work cooperatively in AL | 90.9% (110) | 5.8% (7) | 3.3% (4) |
With AL, instructors are more concerned with eliciting reflective thoughts that apply knowledge to practice than merely conveying facts | 75.2% (91) | 17.4% (21) | 7.4% (9) |
AL changes the teacher-learner relationship to a learner-learner relationship | 68.6% (83) | 26.4% (32) | 5.0% (6) |
Lectures (passive learning) are difficult to adapt to AL methods a | 22.3% (27) | 14.9% (18) | 62.8% (76) |
Cronbach’s alpha | 95% CI | ||
Lower Bound | Upper Bound | ||
0.74 | 0.63 | 0.79 | |