Enhancing Self-Regulated Learning in Graduate Health Professions
Through LASSI-Informed Intervention
Presented by:
Melissa Johnson Chung, Midwestern University
Discuss how Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) data and targeted interventions impact self-regulated learning (SRL) and academic performance in graduate health professions students (PA and PT)
Keywords:
LASSI, Academic Success, Self-Regulated Learning
Abstract:
Graduate health professions students often struggle to adapt to the academic rigor and self-directed learning demands of professional programs. This session will explore how the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) can be leveraged to assess and strengthen SRL skills. Presenters will review LASSI subscale data from Midwestern University’s physical therapy (PT) and physician assistant (PA) cohorts, highlighting associations with academic performance and the impact of targeted SRL workshops.
Outcomes:
1. Interpret and analyze pre- and post-workshop LASSI subscale data for Midwestern University’s PA and PT cohorts.
2. Evaluate outcomes for first-year PA and PT students based on changes in LASSI subscale performance following the SRL workshops.
3. Discuss PA and PT student perceptions related to SRL workshop participation.
Hear it from the author:
Transcript:
Hi,
My name is Melissa Johnson Chung, and I am a Physician Assistant educator in Illinois. Our poster presentation today is related to enhancing self-regulated learning in PA and PT students, through LASSI-informed intervention.
The LASSI is a learning and study strategies inventory that measure students' use of resources, their motivation, their anxiety levels, etc. And at our programs in Downers Grove, Illinois, we assessed our students in orientation using the LASSI, and then we created a process through which every week we provided resources related to self-regulated learning-how to select main ideas, test taking strategies, time management, etc. And through those resources and through those sessions, we were hopeful that the students were gaining those self-regulated learning skills. We then reassessed both the PA and PT students at the end of the summer quarter by performing the LASSI again. We used that data to look for changes between the pre- and post-LASSI, but also how they correlated to student performance. including 1st quarter GPA, anatomy scores, etc. So, this poster outlines what we found, after incorporating LASSI-informed interventions into our 1st year PA and PT student’s curriculum.
Thank you.
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