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E-LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS IN MEDICAL STUDENTS’ ABILITIES TO GENERALIZATION DEVELOPMENT
Snegireva L.V.

Development of medical students' abilities to analysis, synthesis, abstract thinking and generalization is extremely important [1,5]. The  task of the university education is to  form the appropriate level of students' knowledge and skills, to develop abstract and logical thinking as the key to successful self-education and further  inclusions into the  system of  life-long education [2,5]. Research results on e-learning  role in development students'  analytical and synthetic skills [4] are provided, studying of  e-learning  efficiency in formation of medical students' abstract thinking are conducted [3]. However, the e-learning  role in students' abilities to generalization development is still questioned.  In this regard the research purpose was defined as studying of e-learning  effectiveness in medical students'  abilities to identify the essential relations between different parts  of object or phenomena development. The following tasks were considered in our research: 1) to study clinical psychology faculty students' level of abilities to generalization at the initial stage of mathematics e-learning , 2) to analyze clinical psychology faculty students' level of  abilities to identify the essential relations between different parts  of object or phenomena at the final stage of mathematics e-learning in medical school.

Materials and methods of research. The testing of 30 first-year and second-year clinical psychology students was carried out. First-year students were tested as the starters of mathematics e-learning. Second-year clinical psychology faculty students were involved into mathematical e-learning testing after passing mathematics course examination. The experiment was held in constant conditions for both groups of students: the research was held at 11 a.m. in the academic auditory. The research duration was about 20 minutes. The clinical psychology faculty students performed the testing independently without using any electronic devices. The testing was built on the basis of Atmhauer intelligence structure test including the scale of mathematical abilities determination.

Results. The results of the clinical psychology students' testing  (table 1) represent medical university examinees' level  of  abilities to identify the essential relations within an object or phenomenon  at the initial and  final stages of mathematics e-learning.

Table 1. Results of testing in each task respectively.

N

Examinees, succeeded in a task (%)

 

N

Examinees, succeeded in a task (%)

 

1 year

at the initial stage of mathematics e-learning

2 year

at the final stage of mathematics e-learning

 

1 year

at the initial stage of mathematics e-learning

2 year

at the final stage of mathematics e-learning

1

100%

100%

11.

36%

63%

2

93%

88%

12.

71%

81%

3

86%

81%

13.

57%

75%

4

86%

75%

14.

29%

25%

5

57%

88%

15.

21%

50%

6

86%

88%

16.

21%

63%

7

57%

69%

17.

29%

63%

8

57%

63%

18.

43%

63%

9

29%

38%

19.

43%

38%

10

71%

88%

20.

29%

25%

At the initial stage of mathematics e-learning  each two tasks from twenty were difficult   for  75% of examinees. Then at the final stage of mathematics e-learning  such  difficulties were not found  at all.  In six tasks from twenty  ( 30% of  total number of questions), less than a third of first-year medical students could give the correct answer. The  second-year students experienced the same  difficulties just in two tasks from twenty  ( 10% of total number of tasks). At the initial stage of mathematics e-learning half of examinees had problems in nine tasks from twenty that constituted 45% of questions number. Half of clinical psychology faculty second-year students had the same problems only in four tasks from twenty.  The tasks  number with  difficulties for  20% of the  first- year students was equal to seven, and for the second year examinees - five. The quantity of questions with  more than 90% of students' correct  answers  was 5% at the initial stage of mathematics e-learning , and at the final stage of mathematics e-learning - already 10% of  tasks number.  In general, in 70% of tasks the second year examinees  answered  the offered questions more surely and more successfully than the first-year students .  And in each three tasks from twenty the second year examinees  showed  the result exceeding indicators of first-year students twice. At the final stage of mathematics e-learning   the result was  improved  in each  five questions from twenty by a third of  the second year students. The research results can serve as a proof  of  mathematics e-learning   efficiency in development process of  students' abilities to generalization.  Dynamics of  students' abilities development allows to make  conclusion  about  mathematics e-learning   significant contribution into generalization skills forming as the main characteristics of  human cogitative activity. Modern information technologies in medical school education can be considered as a factor of intensive  development of students' abilities to identify the essential relations between different parts  of object or phenomena.  E-learning   transfers  approximately fourth part of  medical university students to a  higher level of abilities to objects and phenomena properties systematization.



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Bibliographic reference

Snegireva L.V. E-LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS IN MEDICAL STUDENTS’ ABILITIES TO GENERALIZATION DEVELOPMENT. International Journal Of Applied And Fundamental Research. – 2017. – № 1 –
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