Open AccessMultidisciplinary Higher Education Strategies in Small Groups of Health and Social Sciences
Author(s) -
Luis Lucio Lobato-Rincón,
Ricardo Bernárdez Vilaboa,
Fernando Santander del Amo,
Juan Lanchares,
María Corres-Illera,
Mercedes López Suárez,
Josefina María Illera del Portal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1927-6052
pISSN - 1927-6044
DOI - 10.5430/ijhe.v10n1p122
Subject(s) - employability , novelty , multidisciplinary approach , competence (human resources) , psychology , small group learning , higher education , medical education , mathematics education , sample (material) , perception , pedagogy , social psychology , sociology , social science , medicine , political science , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience , law
The Small Group Learning (SGL) permeates throughout higher education fields of study. Thus, our aim is to assess the influence of a planned activity of SGL on a variety of competences appraisals through a multidisciplinary perspective. To that end, cooperative learning activities implemented under the SGL approach were programmed for six different degrees. For each activity, students were provided with instructions about what the activity was about and how to make it. Two surveys were scheduled before and after the completion of the SGL. Our findings are presented in a descriptive and quantitative analysis, using surveys with which we examine the pre and post differences in students’ self-reports. As a result, self-perceptions on oral and written expression and bibliography competence increased after the practice of the Small Group Learning (SGL) strategy in students from Social Science degrees as well as in students from Psychology degree. In addition, receiving feedback showed an improvement for the whole sample after doing SGL. Our results confirm that, in order to achieve an excellent quality education, SGL could be applied equally in different fields of study: both Health and Social Sciences. The novelty of this study is that it has been conducted in six different academic degrees and has focused on higher education skills in order to improve future undergraduate’s employability.