Perceptions of Active Learning in a Middle Eastern Medical School

52 students and 29 tutors participated in a cross-sectional mixed-methods study exploring perceptions of active teaching and learning in tutorial-based sessions at a Middle Eastern medical school. The dataset, authored by Ibrahim Al Nabhani and last updated in May 2026, contains survey and focus group results. It reveals a significant gap, with only 9.6% of students rating tutorials positively compared to high tutor satisfaction.

Use Cases

• Analyzing perception gaps between educators and students based on parallel survey data.
• Identifying structural barriers to active learning implementation based on qualitative themes like group size and resources.
• Studying the relationship between tutor training and student engagement in active learning sessions.

Strengths

• Mixed-methods design combining quantitative survey data from 81 participants with qualitative focus group analysis.
• Clear identification of three key thematic findings from qualitative data.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 66.0 KB PDF, which is a small supplementary file; the underlying raw data is not provided.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the article.
• Row count for the original survey data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Cross-sectional mixed-methods study using parallel perception surveys and student focus groups.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 15:29:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

A Middle Eastern medical school.