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Self Assessment of Dental students’ Perception of Learning Environment in Croatia, India and Nepal

AIM: The aim of this study was to assess dental students' perception of different learning environment in India, Nepal and Croatia. METHODS: The study was conducted during a period of academic year 2016/17. A total of 849 dental students participated in the study. There were 188 respondents fro...

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Autores principales: Batra, Manu, Ivanišević Malčić, Ana, Shah, Aasim Farooq, Sagtani, Reshu Agrawal, Medvedec Mikić, Ivana, Tariba Knežević, Petra, Jukić Krmek, Silvana, Illeš, Davor
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Publicado: University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine, and Croatian Dental Society - Croatian Medical Association 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6336449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30666058
http://dx.doi.org/10.15644/asc52/4/1
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author Batra, Manu
Ivanišević Malčić, Ana
Shah, Aasim Farooq
Sagtani, Reshu Agrawal
Medvedec Mikić, Ivana
Tariba Knežević, Petra
Jukić Krmek, Silvana
Illeš, Davor
author_facet Batra, Manu
Ivanišević Malčić, Ana
Shah, Aasim Farooq
Sagtani, Reshu Agrawal
Medvedec Mikić, Ivana
Tariba Knežević, Petra
Jukić Krmek, Silvana
Illeš, Davor
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description AIM: The aim of this study was to assess dental students' perception of different learning environment in India, Nepal and Croatia. METHODS: The study was conducted during a period of academic year 2016/17. A total of 849 dental students participated in the study. There were 188 respondents from Croatia, 373 from India, and 288 from Nepal. Non-responders were not followed up. The Dental Student Learning Environment Survey (DSLES) was used which consisted of 55 items subdivided into seven scales. The scales measured the following perceptions: Flexibility, ‘Student-to-Student Interactions, Emotional Climate, Supportiveness, Meaningful Experience, Organization and Breadth of Interest. Statistical analysis of the data utilised the Kolmogorov Smirnov test. The Kruskal-Wallis “non-parametric ANOVA” was also used to test the differences between the countries. A post hoc analysis was performed using Ranks tables and the Median test. RESULTS: The response rate was 26.9%. Significant differences between the countries were found for all DSLES variables (Kruskal-Wallis, p<0.01). The Median test also showed significant differences between the countries for all DSLES variables (p<0.01). The scales with the highest mean values were ‘Student-to-student interactions’ in India and Nepal, and the ‘Emotional Climate’ in Croatia. CONCLUSIONS: Students in Croatia rated their school only with grades excellent and good, while their colleagues in India and Nepal were more critical. Despite the different settings in three countries, ‘Flexibility’ was identified as the area of weakness in all three educational systems.
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spelling pubmed-63364492019-01-21 Self Assessment of Dental students’ Perception of Learning Environment in Croatia, India and Nepal Batra, Manu Ivanišević Malčić, Ana Shah, Aasim Farooq Sagtani, Reshu Agrawal Medvedec Mikić, Ivana Tariba Knežević, Petra Jukić Krmek, Silvana Illeš, Davor Acta Stomatol Croat Original Scientific Papers AIM: The aim of this study was to assess dental students' perception of different learning environment in India, Nepal and Croatia. METHODS: The study was conducted during a period of academic year 2016/17. A total of 849 dental students participated in the study. There were 188 respondents from Croatia, 373 from India, and 288 from Nepal. Non-responders were not followed up. The Dental Student Learning Environment Survey (DSLES) was used which consisted of 55 items subdivided into seven scales. The scales measured the following perceptions: Flexibility, ‘Student-to-Student Interactions, Emotional Climate, Supportiveness, Meaningful Experience, Organization and Breadth of Interest. Statistical analysis of the data utilised the Kolmogorov Smirnov test. The Kruskal-Wallis “non-parametric ANOVA” was also used to test the differences between the countries. A post hoc analysis was performed using Ranks tables and the Median test. RESULTS: The response rate was 26.9%. Significant differences between the countries were found for all DSLES variables (Kruskal-Wallis, p<0.01). The Median test also showed significant differences between the countries for all DSLES variables (p<0.01). The scales with the highest mean values were ‘Student-to-student interactions’ in India and Nepal, and the ‘Emotional Climate’ in Croatia. CONCLUSIONS: Students in Croatia rated their school only with grades excellent and good, while their colleagues in India and Nepal were more critical. Despite the different settings in three countries, ‘Flexibility’ was identified as the area of weakness in all three educational systems. University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine, and Croatian Dental Society - Croatian Medical Association 2018-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6336449/ /pubmed/30666058 http://dx.doi.org/10.15644/asc52/4/1 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 License.
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Ivanišević Malčić, Ana
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Medvedec Mikić, Ivana
Tariba Knežević, Petra
Jukić Krmek, Silvana
Illeš, Davor
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6336449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30666058
http://dx.doi.org/10.15644/asc52/4/1
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