The effectiveness of the Peyton’s 4-step teaching approach on skill acquisition of procedures in health professions education: A systematic review and meta-analysis with integrated meta-regression
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Rahel Caliesch; Karl Martin Sattelmayer; Katia Giacomino
- Source
- PeerJ
PeerJ, Vol 8, p e10129 (2020)
- Subject
- 020205 medical informatics
Peyton’s 4-step
Science Policy
Procedural skills
Public health professional education
MEDLINE
lcsh:Medicine
Motor skills
Clinical competence
02 engineering and technology
PsycINFO
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Dreyfus model of skill acquisition
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Meta-regression
030212 general & internal medicine
Motor skill
Medical education
Psychomotor performance
General Neuroscience
lcsh:R
See one - do one
General Medicine
Science and Medical Education
Moderation
Comprehension
Meta-analysis
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Psychology
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2167-8359
Background Acquisition of procedures is an important element in health professions education. Traditionally procedures are taught using a “see one - do one” approach. That is a teacher demonstrates and describes a procedure and afterwards the students practice the procedure. A more recent teaching approach for the acquisition of procedural skills was presented by Walker and Peyton. Peyton’s teaching approach is a stepwise teaching approach and consists of the following four steps: demonstration, deconstruction, comprehension and performance. The aims of this study were (i) to systematically evaluate the effectiveness of Peyton’s 4–step teaching approach on the acquisition of procedural skills in health professions education and (ii) to evaluate whether studies with fewer students per teacher showed a larger between group difference than studies with more students per teacher. Methods We searched in Medline, PsycInfo, Embase and ERIC for eligible studies. Records were screened by two independent reviewers. A random effects meta-analysis was performed to evaluate skill acquisition and time needed to perform the procedures at post-acquisition and retention tests. A meta-regression was used to explore the effect of the number of students per teacher on the estimated effect of the educational interventions. Results An effect size of 0.45 SMD (95% CI [0.15; 0.75]) at post-acquisition and 0.7 SMD (95% CI [−0.09; 1.49]) at retention testing were in favour of Peyton’s teaching approach for skill acquisition. The groups using Peyton’s teaching approach needed considerably less time to perform the procedure at post-acquisition (SMD: −0.8; 95% [CI −2.13 to 1.62]) and retention (SMD: −2.65; 95% CI [−7.77 to 2.47]) testing. The effectiveness of Peyton’s teaching approach was less clear in subgroup analyses using peer teachers. Meta-regression showed that the number of students per teacher was an important moderator variable. Conclusion Peyton’s teaching approach is an effective teaching approach for skill acquisition of procedural skills in health professions education. When peer students or student tutors are used as teachers the effectiveness of Peyton’s teaching approach is less clear. Peyton’s teaching approach is more effective when small groups with few students per teacher are used.