期刊名称：Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions
电子版ISSN：1975-5937
出版年度：2015
卷号：12
期号：1
页码：1-6
DOI：10.3352/jeehp.2015.12.56
语种：English
出版社：Korea Health Insurance Licensing Examination Institute
摘要：Purpose:It aimed to explore the degree of difficulty of caries-detection-associated-topics perceived by dental students and lecturers as pedagogical step in the development of learning objects for e-learning.Methods:A convenience sample comprising ninety-eight subjects from different academic levels (undergraduate/graduate students and pediatric den_x0002_tistry lecturers) participated.Two spreadsheets (isolated/relative) were created considering key topics in the caries detec?tion process.The isolated evaluation intended to explore each topic in an isolated way,while the relative intended to classify,comparatively,the participants’ perceived difficulty per topic.Afterwards,data were analyzed.All values on spread?sheets were combined obtaining the subject’s final perception.Associations between the subjects’ degree of the per?ceived difficulty and academic level were estimated.ANOVA was used to determine differences regarding the perception among evaluated topics in distinct groups.Results:Caries histopathology and detection of proximal carious lesions were the topics perceived as the most difficult in the process of caries detection by both students and lecturers.Differentiation between an extrinsic pigmentation and a brown-spot (caries lesion) as well as differential diagnosis between caries and enamel developmental defects or non-carious lesions were considered as more difficult by undergraduates in compari?son to graduates/lecturers (regression-coefficient = 14.54;Standard Error = 3.34;P < 0.001 and 8.40,3.31,and 0.01 re?spectively).Conclusion:Topics as histopathology and detection of proximal caries lesions were identified as the most dif?ficult despite the academic level.However,some topics are differently perceived according to the group.These results are useful for developing pedagogical material,based on the students real learning needs/expectations.
关键词：Purpose:It aimed to explore the degree of difficulty of caries-detection-associated-topics perceived by dental students and lecturers as pedagogical step in the development of learning objects for e-learning.Methods:A convenience sample comprising ninety-eight subjects from different academic levels (undergraduate/graduate students and pediatric den_x0002_tistry lecturers) participated.Two spreadsheets (isolated/relative) were created considering key topics in the caries detec?tion process.The isolated evaluation intended to explore each topic in an isolated way,while the relative intended to classify,comparatively,the participants’ perceived difficulty per topic.Afterwards,data were analyzed.All values on spread?sheets were combined obtaining the subject’s final perception.Associations between the subjects’ degree of the per?ceived difficulty and academic level were estimated.ANOVA was used to determine differences regarding the perception among evaluated topics in distinct groups.Results:Caries histopathology and detection of proximal carious lesions were the topics perceived as the most difficult in the process of caries detection by both students and lecturers.Differentiation between an extrinsic pigmentation and a brown-spot (caries lesion) as well as differential diagnosis between caries and enamel developmental defects or non-carious lesions were considered as more difficult by undergraduates in compari?son to graduates/lecturers (regression-coefficient = 14.54;Standard Error = 3.34;P < 0.001 and 8.40,3.31,and 0.01 re?spectively).Conclusion:Topics as histopathology and detection of proximal caries lesions were identified as the most dif?ficult despite the academic level.However,some topics are differently perceived according to the group.These results are useful for developing pedagogical material,based on the students real learning needs/expectations.
