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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
The Use of Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) to Investigate Differences Between Low vs High Academically Performing Medical Students Mohammed K. Khalil 1
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Shanna E. Williams 1 & H. Gregory Hawkins 2
# International Association of Medical Science Educators 2019
Abstract Objectives This study examines differences in the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) 10-subscale scores between low and high academically performing medical students relative to internal and external examinations. Methods The LASSI instrument was administered to 180 medical students from three classes (2016, 2017, and 2018). To measure the strength of association between LASSI 10-subscale scores and performance on overall biomedical sciences and the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1, Pearson product-moment correlation analyses were performed. One-way ANOVA and Bonferroni post-hoc analyses were performed to identify statistically significant differences on LASSI scores between students grouped by quartiles according to their performance on USMLE Step 1 examination (external performance measure) and by their average letter grade in the overall biomedical sciences (internal performance measure). Results Significant associations were observed between Anxiety, Motivation, and Test Strategies and students’ performance on both overall biomedical sciences and USMLE Step 1 examinations. Anxiety, Motivation, and Test Strategies were different between “A” and “C” students in the overall biomedical sciences. Anxiety, Information Processing, Motivation, Selecting Main Idea, and Test Strategies were significantly different between the upper and lower quartiles in USMLE Step 1 student performance. Conclusions Anxiety, Motivation and Test Strategies are the main LASSI subscales that were significantly different between high-performing and low-performing students for internal and external examinations. Interestingly, the same LASSI subscales Anxiety, Motivation, and Test Strategies were correlated with students’ performance in internal and external examinations. Keywords Study strategies . LASSI . Academic performance . USMLE step 1 examination
Introduction In the increasingly competitive realm of higher education, student academic success is of paramount importance for all institutions, and poor academic outcomes can negatively impact the reputation of an institution [1]. Many studies have investigated the relationship between learning and study strategies to academic achievement [2–6]. Deficiencies in the areas of learning and study strategies contribute to academic difficulties in their preclinical years. It has been shown
* Mohammed K. Khalil [email protected] 1
University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, South Carolina, 607 Grove Road, Greenville, SC 29605, USA
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Piedmont Technical College, Greenwood, SC 29646, USA
that the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) subscales are correlated with academic performance for medical students [6–9]. Howev
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