Escape Room-Based Learning in a Neurological Rehabilitation Course: Academic Achievement, Performance, and Student Experience

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Escape Room-Based Learning: The intervention will be delivered as a structured educational escape room activity within the Neurological Rehabilitation course. Participating students will be assigned to teams of approximately seven students and will complete the activity in a university laboratory arranged as an escape room. The intervention will include three phases: Prebriefing, Gameplay, Debriefing

Study summary

This study will evaluate the effects of an escape room-based learning activity in an undergraduate neurological rehabilitation course for physiotherapy and rehabilitation students.

Third-year students enrolled in the Neurological Rehabilitation course will participate in a team-based educational escape room consisting of six stations. The stations will require students to apply knowledge and clinical reasoning skills related to neurological conditions, sensory assessment, the ASIA Impairment Scale, walking aids, neurological evaluation methods, and rehabilitation decision-making.

The study will assess academic achievement, escape room performance, student satisfaction, and student experiences. Academic outcomes may be compared with course results from the previous academic year. Escape room performance measures will include completion time, completed stations, solved puzzles, hints received, errors made, and rubric-based performance scores. Students will also complete a satisfaction questionnaire, and a subgroup of volunteer students will participate in individual interviews.

Participation will be voluntary and will not affect course grades. The activity may involve temporary video recording solely for same-day debriefing; recordings will not be used as research data and will be permanently deleted immediately after debriefing. No medical intervention or biological sample collection will be performed.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Academic Achievement: Midterm Examination Score — 8 weeks
  Academic achievement will be assessed using the midterm examination score in the Neurological Rehabilitation course. Scores will be reported as points obtained from the course examination. Higher scores indicate greater academic achievement.
• Academic Achievement: Final Examination Score — 16 weeks
  Academic achievement will be assessed using the final examination score in the Neurological Rehabilitation course. Scores will be reported as points obtained from the course examination. Higher scores indicate greater academic achievement.
• Academic Achievement: Overall Course Grade — 16 weeks later
  Overall academic achievement will be assessed using the final course grade calculated according to the standard course evaluation system. Higher scores indicate greater overall academic achievement.
• Escape Room Completion Time — Day 1
  Escape room performance will be assessed by recording the total time required for each team to complete the escape room activity. Completion time will be reported in minutes. Shorter completion time indicates better task completion performance.

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