A survey of the IT skills and attitudes of final year dental students at Bristol University in 1996 and 1997

Grigg, P.; Stephens, Chris

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0579.1999.tb00071.x

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“…The fact that 94.9% of the medical and dental students (psva) in our survey assess their computer knowledge as sufficient or better confirms that the great majority are well equipped to use the modern media. However, it has to be taken into consideration that “normal” students tend to overestimate their computer skills, whereas experts assess their competence more strictly (Grigg and Stephens, 1999; Mattheos et al, 2002). Feldman (1992) reports that 62% of dental students at Newark, New Jersey, used word processing systems in 1991, while these obviously sufficient computer skills were described as 87% in 1993.…”

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“…Computer skills of medical students at the University of Chicago were reported as being 91/92% sufficient in 1996/1997 (Hollander, 1999), whereas results of a 1996 survey of British dental students show that only 77 psva assessed themselves as competent in some basic computer skills or as unable/beginners. In a survey made after a computer‐assisted learning room was opened at this university in 1997, 66.7 psva still placed themselves in the latter group (Grigg and Stephens, 1999), while in 1997/1998, 51.1 psva of a university dental school in Ireland considered their expertise with computers as poor (Ray and Hannigan, 1999). The analysis of a decade of data collection at a U.S. medical school confirms the students' increasing computer skills over the study period.…”

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“…Regular instruction in computer, e‐mail, Medline use, Web search, e.g., at Stony Book, New York (Gibson and Silverberg, 2000), would be both helpful and highly desirable to enhance computer skills (Grigg and Stephens, 1999; Hollander, 1999; Gibson and Silverberg, 2000; Virtanen and Nieminen, 2002). Students frequently indicated that they would welcome ICT instruction for participants with different levels of knowledge (Virtanen and Nieminen, 2002).…”

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On the use and value of new media and how medical students assess their effectiveness in learning anatomy

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The new media have become widely used tools in medical instruction today. But are they regarded as useful by students training to become medical doctors? What are students' most important criteria for a good CD-ROM or valuable Internet resources? To answer these questions, and to obtain definite data on the use of new media, we distributed a questionnaire to preclinical medical and dental students of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. The evaluation of 397 questionnaires demonstrates that 94.9% of the students use personal computers; 91.6% of the 85.8% who own a computer have access to the Internet. The Internet is used at least once a week by 70.1% of students for private and by 59.9% for study purposes. Offers of course-relevant material (Workshop Anatomy for the Internet) are of major interest. CD-ROMs with anatomy applications are used by 58.9% of the students. The subjective effectiveness regarding various aspects of learning using books versus CD-ROMs is compared and the students' views of the importance of different features of electronic media are outlined, including course-relevant high-resolution and quality material, key word search, state-of-the-art information, and clearly laid-out tables. The findings of this survey demonstrate high student demand for computer-aided instruction and anatomy applications offered on the Internet and on CD-ROMs. The students' main focus of interest was found to be examination-relevant material and supplemental study material for courses offered locally. The present results may serve as a basis for the development of valuable educational aids.

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“…This highlights one of the main barriers to using CAL in education, ie students who cannot use computers will be seriously disadvantaged. In 1996 and 1997, Bristol dental school obtained opinions from their students on the use of IT in the undergraduate curriculum 3 and the main complaint from students was the lack of adequate training in IT.…”

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“…Originally, web-based technology had limitations regarding the transmission of large multimedia files, but this may be overcome with the increased availability of high-speed internet connections. 2 Studies have shown that students consider using computers in the dental curriculum as an effective tool, 1,3,4 as CAL offers many advantages over traditional methods of learning. For example, CAL allows students to work in their own time and pace.…”

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The attitudes of undergraduate students and staff to the use of electronic learning

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Background: Computer-aided learning (CAL) offers advantages over traditional methods of learning as it allows students to work in their own time and pace. The School of Dentistry at the University of Birmingham has created an electronic learning website, named the Ecourse. This is designed to be a web-based supplement to the dental undergraduate curriculum. Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes of third year dental students and members of staff about the Ecourse website. Method: A questionnaire was produced and piloted before being distributed to all 65 third year dental students to obtain their opinions about the Ecourse website. The views of Ecourse were sought from four members of staff by performing qualitative, semi-structured interviews. Results: Lecture handouts and textbooks were reported as the sources used most often, by 96% of students. Eighty-six per cent of students are accessing the Ecourse mainly at the School of Dentistry, but 53% are also accessing it at home. Students liked the multiple-choice questions, downloading extra notes and looking at pictures and animation to explain clinical procedures. The majority of the students (79%) want the Ecourse to be used as a supplement to the undergraduate programme and 7% wanted it to replace formal lectures. Staff recognised the benefits of the Ecourse but were concerned about plagiarism, the effect on lecture attendance and the lack of feedback from students on existing CAL material. Conclusion: Students consider the Ecourse as a positive method of supplementing traditional methods of learning in the dental undergraduate programme. However in contrast teaching staff expressed negative views on the use of e-learning.

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Use of Information and Communication Technology Among Dental Students at the University of Jordan

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Baqain

2005

Journal of Dental Education

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The aim of this study was to investigate the current knowledge, skills, and opinions of undergraduate dental students at the University of Jordan with respect to information communication technology (ICT). Dental students from the second, third, fourth, and fifth years were asked to complete a questionnaire presented in a lecture at the end of the second semester in the 2002-03 academic year. The response rate was 81 percent. Besides free and unlimited access to computers at the school of dentistry, 74 percent of the students had access to computers at home. However, 44 percent did not use a computer regularly. Male students were more regular and longer users of computers than females (p<0.001). A significant number of students (70 percent) judged themselves competent in information technology (IT) skills. More males felt competent in basic IT skills than did females (p<0.05). More than two-thirds acquired their computer skills through sources other than at the university. The main educational use of computers was accessing the Internet, word processing, multimedia, presentations, Medline search, and data management. More clinical students felt competent in word-processing skills (p<0.05) and many more used word processing for their studies (p<0.001) than did preclinical students. More males used word processing for their studies than females (p<0.001). Students used computers for personal activities more frequently than for academic reasons. More males used computers for both academic (p<0.01) and personal activities (p<0.001) than did females. All students had access to the Internet at the university, and 54 percent had access at home. A high percentage of students (94 percent) indicated they were comfortable using the Internet, 75 percent said they were confident in the accuracy, and 80 percent said they were confident in the relevance of information obtained from the Internet. Most students (90 percent) used email. Most students (83 percent) supported the idea of placing lectures on the web, and 61.2 percent indicated that this would not influence lecture attendance. Students used the Internet more for personal reasons than for the study of dentistry. More clinical students used the Internet for dentistry than preclinical students (p<0.001). More males than females used the Internet for dentistry (p<0.01) as well as for pleasure (p<0.01). Time and availability were the main obstacles to Internet use. Dental students at the University of Jordan have access to substantial IT resources and demonstrated attitudes toward the computer and Internet technology and use that were similar to other students in other nations. However, the educational use of ICT among Jordanian students remains low.

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A survey of the IT skills and attitudes of final year dental students at Bristol University in 1996 and 1997

Cited by 21 publications

References 12 publications

On the use and value of new media and how medical students assess their effectiveness in learning anatomy

On the use and value of new media and how medical students assess their effectiveness in learning anatomy

The attitudes of undergraduate students and staff to the use of electronic learning

Use of Information and Communication Technology Among Dental Students at the University of Jordan

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