Improving Medical Students' Research Skills: A Study on Confidence and Performance Through In-Course Assessments

The project contains the following underlying data:Rawdata.xlsx (anonymised Likert score data collected using surveys described below, with anonymised non-identifiable formative and summative scores of participants, and student tutorial engagement assessments throughout each ICA module)Extended data:Survey 1. Survey on confidence interval at the end of block 1. This is an anonymised survey containing questions (1-3) on students’ pre- and post-session confidence rating (CR), a self-assessed Likert score from 1 to 10 of students’ confidence levels in writing an editorial before and after workshops and after small-group tutorials. Open questions allow students to offer feedback to the block (4-5).Survey 2. Survey on confidence interval at the end of block 2. This is an anonymised survey containing questions (1-6) on students’ pre- and post-session confidence rating (CR), a self-assessed Likert score from 1 to 10 of students’ confidence levels in making a PowerPoint presentation and presenting a research article before and after workshops and after small-group tutorials. Open questions allow students to offer feedback to the block (7-8).Survey 3. Survey on confidence interval at the end of block 3. This is an anonymised survey containing questions (1-6) on students’ pre- and post-session confidence rating (CR), a self-assessed Likert score from 1 to 10 of students’ confidence levels in writing abstracts and data analysis before and after workshops and after small-group tutorials. Open questions allow students to offer feedback to the block (7-8).