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. 2017 Sep 18;17:167. doi: 10.1186/s12909-017-1001-5

Table 2.

Coding scheme for qualitative analysis of items A1 and A2

Category label Criteria
A1. Did you find the 3-min videos helpful? Please elaborate
Learning
 • Challenge Student refers to the ease/difficulty of concepts covered in 3MTLs
 • Learn Student refers to a general learning aspect about 3MTLs
 • Revision Student refers to a help/lack of thereof provided by 3MTLs for revision
 • Overview Student refers to a help/lack of thereof provided by 3MTLs for topic overview
 • Study Student refers to a help/lack of thereof provided by 3MTLs for studying the topic
 • Audio Student refers to audio feature in 3MTLs that helped/inhibited learning
 • Visual Student refers to visual feature in 3MTLs that helped/inhibited learning
 • Time Student refers to a comment about time being a factor in 3MTLs
 • Help Student refers specifically to help/lack of thereof provided by 3MTLs towards preparation for assessments
Engagement
 • Compare Student compares use of 3MTLs to another method of learning
 • Engage Student refers to 3MTLs as being OR not being fun/enjoyable/engaging/interesting
 • Technology Student mentions a technological issue with respect to using 3MTLs
Quality
 • Ease Student refers to ease/difficulty with using 3MTLs
 • Control Student refers to control of choice/pace in using 3MTLs
 • Graphics Student refers to a comment about picture or animations in 3MTLs
 • Text Student refers to a comment about text in 3MTLs
 • Language Student refers to a comment about ease/difficulty about language used in 3MTLs
Rating scale: −2 = Very negative comment; −1 = Negative comment; 0 = Neutral or no mention; 1 = Positive comment; 2 = Very positive comment
A2. Do you have any suggestions to improve the videos?
Learning
 • Challenge Student suggests about improvement related to concepts covered in 3MTLs
 • Learn Student suggests about improvement related to a learning aspect about 3MTLs
 • Time Student suggests a comment about increasing/decreasing time of 3MTLs
 • Number Student suggests a comment about increasing/decreasing the number of 3MTLs
Engagement
 • Compare Student suggests improvement in 3MTLs in comparison to another method of learning
 • Engage Student suggestion refers to improving engagement of audience in refers to 3MTLs (being fun/enjoyable/engaging/interesting)
 • Technology Student suggests improvement with a technological issue with respect to using 3MTLs
Quality
 • Control Student suggests about improvement to control of choice/pace in using 3MTLs
 • Graphics Student suggests improvement about picture or animations in 3MTLs
 • Text Student suggests improvement about text in 3MTLs
 • Language Student suggests improvement about ease/difficulty about language used in 3MTLs
 • Audio Student suggests improvement about audio feature in 3MTLs
 • Visual Student suggests improvement about visual feature in 3MTLs
 • Clarity Student suggests improvement about clarity of presentation in 3MTLs
Rating scale for A2: −2 = Needs major improvement; −1 = Needs minor improvement; 0 = Neutral or no mention; 1 = Just adequate at present; 2 = No further improvement necessary