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Abstract

Background: In higher education, there is a lack of knowledge about how individual factors influence personal preferences for teaching methodology and academic outcomes in biostatistics among nursing students. This study sought to evaluate the associations between personality traits and preferences for the flipped classroom or traditional lessons, satisfaction, and achievement in a biostatistics course in nursing education. Methods: The cross-sectional study included data collection at two time points. During the 2018–2019 academic course, the flipped classroom approach was implemented into a biostatistics course of the nursing degree at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). Students responded to an online questionnaire including sociodemographic data, personality traits, locus of control, satisfaction, teaching quality, student involvement, and effort. After the final examination, students’ achievements were collected. Results: A total of 137/161 (85.1%) students were included in the study. Most students preferred a flipped classroom to traditional lectures. Students who scored high in neuroticism preferred the traditional class (p < 0.001). Furthermore, personality was associated with satisfaction: high levels of responsibility and internal locus of control were significantly associated with higher satisfaction (p < 0.05). The percentage of students who did not pass the biostatistics exam was reduced by 50% with the flipped classroom methodology (33% vs. 15%; p < 0.001). Conclusions: A flipped classroom is adequate for the biostatistics course. Teachers should reconsider possible reservations about new teaching methods, which can be related to student personality.

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Title
Personality, Preferences, Satisfaction, and Achievement in a Biostatistics Course: Traditional versus Flipped Classrooms in Nursing Education
Author
Yañez, Aina M 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Adrover-Roig, Daniel 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bennasar-Veny, Miquel 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Balearic Islands, 07122 Palma, Spain; Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands (IdISBa), 07120 Palma, Spain 
 Department of Applied Pedagogy and Educational Psychology, University of Balearic Islands, 07122 Palma, Spain; Institute of Research and Innovation in Education (IRIE), University of Balearic Islands, 07122 Palma, Spain 
 Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Balearic Islands, 07122 Palma, Spain; Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands (IdISBa), 07120 Palma, Spain; CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), 28029 Madrid, Spain 
First page
197
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
22277102
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2779476151
Copyright
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.