Quantification for Students’ Learning Attitude on an Autonomous Learning

Abstract

 In recent years, the importance of tutorials in medical education is recognized. We have investigated the assessment quantitative for small group learning in the medical informatics practice. Latent structures for the students in Shimane Medical University filled out a tutorial assessment sheets, in which composed 19 items and 4 categories were analyzed by latent structure analysis and path analysis. ‘Important theme’ and ‘knowledge arrangement’ as exogenous variables were related with ‘presentment and extraction’ as endogenous variable by path analysis, but disturbances in other exogenous variables were high values. Two latent classes named ‘interesting in practice’ and ‘uninteresting practice’ were involved in latent structure of tutorial assessment sheets by latent structure analysis. In these results, students had considerable interest in practice and upskilling for medical infomatics.