Effect of the Experimental Introduction of the Daily Brief Report Teaching Method and Students’ Characteristics

[Purpose] We introduced the daily brief report (DBR) method, a teaching method focusing on learners, to physical therapy lectures, and investigated the effect of the method and the characteristics of the students. [Subjects and Methods] Based on the results of a questionnaire administered to 43 university students and 56 vocational training school students attending the classes, we compared the results with the data of Uta, performed categorical principal component analysis, and analyzed them using the text mining method. [Results] Compared with conventional group education, more than half of the physical therapy students perceived the DBR method positively, and we found that they held a sense of wanting to learn by themselves. [Conclusion] Our results suggest that it is possible to raise students’ motivation levels by introducing the DBR method into lecture classes, and through making students write reports every time, it can be said that the DBR method has the advantages of individually raising students’ motivation to learn and correcting their mistakes which is absent from conventional group education.