Fruit Salad Activity to Improve Learning Outcome for Pharmacy Students

Traditional teaching styles for pharmacy students are lecture based method. By using this teaching method, students generally get less knowledge from the classroom (-20%) and they usually have to push hard efforts to review the lessons themselves. Sometimes, they need to be tutored to fulfill the missing knowledge. However, most of them still fail to get understanding of the whole content. Fruit salad activity, commonly known as Jigsaw has just been effectively used to teach student. This technique allow students from individual small group to study different parts of lesson from other groups. This activity could help student to improve their problem solving skills, listening/communication skills and encouragement of cooperative learning