Date of Award
5-1-2023
Degree Type
DPT Project
Degree Name
Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT)
Advisor
Rhonda Manning
Abstract
Objective: During the COVID 19 pandemic, schools across the world have had to adapt their curricula to allow students to continue their education remotely or via hybrid classroom format. The effectiveness of online/hybrid teaching has been studied with respect to many academic skills. However, the effectiveness of this type of teaching on psychomotor skills has not yet been determined. The purpose of this systematic review was to compare healthcare students’ acquisition of psychomotor skills in an online format versus traditional classroom format.
Methods: Researchers reviewed over 100 articles using Cochrane Library, CINAHL, PubMed, and Google Scholar databases and search engines. This review included studies that involved healthcare students, remote or hybrid curriculum design(experimental group), traditional face-to-face curriculum design (control group), and analyzed the effects the respective teaching methods had on acquisition of psychomotor skills. After screening and removal of duplicates researchers were left with10 articles that were included in this systematic review. Studies used were analyzed by sample size, population, measure description, JBI score, and the findings of each study.
Results: The JBI critical appraisal tool for quasi-experimental studies was utilized for this systematic review. All researchers appraised the ten articles.
Conclusion. Although the number of studies in this area are limited, researchers expect the volume of studies to increase in the near future due to the shift in educational techniques during the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of studies in this review support online education alone or as a supplement to traditional face-to-face education as an effective way to teach psychomotor skills.
Impact Statement. The results of this review show potential for greater application of online or hybrid learning for the acquisition of psychomotor skills, potentially increasing accessibility to education for students at all times, including during situations when in-person education cannot take place.
Recommended Citation
Arneson, Peyton; Burkes, Braiden; and Cmaylo, Talia, "Acquisition of Psychomotor Skills in An Online or Hybrid Classroom:A Systematic Review" (2023). DPT Capstones. 12.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/dpt_cap/12