Comparing the impact of three pedagogy exercises for popularizing positive deviance concept among medical students in Bareilly: A quasi-experimental study using normal curve approach
Keywords:
Positive Deviance, Quasi-experimental Design, Educational Intervention, Medical Students, StatisticsAbstract
Background: There is usually an apprehension fear among medical student and doctors about use of statistics in their academic study. This study proposes to break this block/barrier by encouraging the medical student to use of statistics in their routine life/daily activity/discussion/thinking. Objective: This study aim to compare the impact of three teaching methods to popularize the concept of positive deviance (PD) through Normal curve theory among medical student. Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted over two months at a private medical college. 149 first-year MBBS students were divided into three groups, receiving different interventions. Kruskal-Wallis H test and Paired t test applied to see the statistical significance of intervention. Results: A total of 149 students during post intervation assessments showed significant improvements (p < 0.001) in knowledge scores across all groups, with the Positive deviance (PD) approach demonstrating the most gains (Cohen's d=12.671). Conclusions: This study conclude that the implementation of the normal curve along with PD as a conceptual framework proven to be a significant technique which highlights the effectiveness of using Normal curve and PD concepts to make statistics easy for medical students.
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