The Role of Self-Regulated Learning Competency in Clinical Reasoning With a Computer-Simulated Environment (Poster 40)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Ten
  In Poster Session: Studying and Self-Regulated Learning SIG Poster Session

Abstract

In this study, we investigated the relationship between SRL (self-regulated learning) competency and clinical reasoning tendency as medical students diagnosed a virtual patient in a computer-simulated environment. We further examined whether students with different profiles of SRL competency and clinical reasoning tendency differed in their behavioral patterns and performance. The results suggested that enhancing students’ SRL competency, especially their self-reflection skills, could increase the tendency toward relying on an analytic approach to clinical reasoning. Students with different profiles of SRL competency and clinical reasoning tendency demonstrated different behavioral patterns. Moreover, analytic SRL learners ordered more relevant lab tests than non-analytic low SRL learners in clinical reasoning.

Authors

• Shan Li, Lehigh University
  Presenting Author

• Juan Zheng, Lehigh University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Susanne P. Lajoie, McGill University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Hongbin Wu, Peking University
  Non-Presenting Author