Students’ perceptions regarding educational environment in an Indian dental school

Thomas, Betsy; Abraham, Reem Rachel; Alexander, Mohan; Ramnarayan, K

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“…Although students' perceptions of their educational environment have been studied and reported around the world 1,8,10-13, 17 , we are unaware of any reports on medical students' assessment of their learning environments, either in Iran or at the Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences (RUMS) at last years. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to measure the viewpoints of nursing students toward various aspects of their learning environment, which were compared based on age, gender, year of enrolment, marital status, and native and non-native status, using the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM).…”

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Students' perceptions of the educational environment in an Iranian Medical School, as measured by The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure

Bakhshi

Bakhshialiabad

Hassanshahi

2014

Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull

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Learning environment is found to be important in determining students' academic success and learning. The goal of this study was to investigate the viewpoints of medical students toward learning environment based on The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) at Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences (RUMS). This descriptive study was conducted using the Persian DREEM questionnaire. All medical students in basic and clinical courses except internship students (fifth and sixth year) were approached to participate during the study period, of which 223 provided consent and completed the survey. Data were analyzed by SPSS-17, t-test and ANOVA statistical tests were used. The mean total score was 113.8±17.31 (out of a maximum of 200, 56.9%) indicating relative satisfaction with the perceived environment. There were no individual areas of excellence. Some items scored consistently badly indicating cause for concern. The highest score were related to Academic Self-Perception (64.11%) and learning (57.2%) domains. The lowest score were related to Teachers (55.9%), Social Self-Perceptions (56.6%) and atmosphere (55.8%) domains. Basic science students perceived the environment to be significantly more positive than preclinical students (p<0.05). Native and married students perceived the environment to be significantly more positive (p<0.05). Second and fourth year students were significantly higher than the others (P<0.01). There was significant difference between mean scores of total mean DREEM and sub-domains by year of enrolment (p=0.001). This tool identified areas of concern within RUMS medical school. Further use of the DREEM as a monitoring tool would be useful to re-evaluate the environment following appropriate intervention. To create an appropriate educational environment and reduce the deficits in order to provide a better learning environment with facilitate and supportive system for students.

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Students' perceptions of the educational environment in an Iranian Medical School, as measured by The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure

Bakhshi

Bakhshialiabad

Hassanshahi

2014

Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull

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“…The DREEM has most commonly been used with medical students in undergraduate medical schools (n ¼ 31 papers); but it has also been used with other groups including graduates (interns/residents) (Bassaw et al 2003;de Oliveira Filho et al 2005a;2005b;de Oliveira Filho & Schonhorst 2005;de Oliveira Filho & Vieira 2007;Tokuda et al 2010), and nursing (Wang et al 2009), dental (Thomas et al 2009) and chiropractic (Till 2004(Till , 2005) students, and teaching staff (Miles & Leinster 2009 (continued ) (continued ) It has been used to explore a number of issues, which can be broadly classified into four groups:…”

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“…Investigating perception of the current educational environment and identifying areas of strength and weakness (e.g. Bassaw et al 2003;Vieira et al 2003;Dunne et al 2006;Whittle et al 2007;Thomas et al 2009;Aghamolaei & Fazel 2010). .…”

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The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM): A review of its adoption and use

Miles¹,

Swift²,

Leinster³

2012

Medical Teacher

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Background: The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) was published in 1997 as a tool to evaluate educational environments of medical schools and other health training settings and a recent review concluded that it was the most suitable such instrument. Aims: This study aimed to review the settings and purposes to which the DREEM has been applied and the approaches used to analyse and report it, with a view to guiding future users towards appropriate methodology. Method: A systematic literature review was conducted using the Web of Knowledge databases of all articles reporting DREEM data between 1997 and 4 January 2011. Results: The review found 40 publications, using data from 20 countries. DREEM is used in evaluation for diagnostic purposes, comparison between different groups and comparison with ideal/expected scores. A variety of non-parametric and parametric statistical methods have been applied, but their use is inconsistent. Conclusions: DREEM has been used internationally for different purposes and is regarded as a useful tool by users. However, reporting and analysis differs between publications. This lack of uniformity makes comparison between institutions difficult. Most users of DREEM are not statisticians and there is a need for informed guidelines on its reporting and statistical analysis.

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“…Over the past 15 years, medical and allied health educators across places and educational settings have widely used the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) to appraise their institutions' educational climate [3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. This valuable tool was originally designed in English [8] and has been translated into various languages such as Swedish, Greek, and Spanish [10][11][12].…”

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Stability of DREEM in a Sample of Medical Students: A Prospective Study

Yusoff

2012

Education Research International

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Background. Over the last 15 year, DREEM was applied in various educational settings to appraise educational climate. So far, none of article reported its stability in Malaysian medical students. Objective. To determine stability of the DREEM to measure educational climate at different time and occasions using a sample of medical students. Methodology. A prospective cohort study was done on 196 first year medical students. It was administered to the medical students at four different intervals. The Cronbach's alpha and intraclass correlation analysis were applied to measure internal consistency and agreement level across the intervals. The analysis was done using SPSS 18. Result. A total of 186 (94.9%) medical students responded completely to the DREEM inventory. The overall Cronbach's alpha value of the DREEM at the four measurements ranged between 0.91 and 0.94. The average Cronbach's alpha values of the five subscales ranged between 0.45 and 0.83. The ICC coefficient values for the DREEM total score was 0.67 and its subscales ranged between 0.51 and 0.62. Conclusion. This study supported satisfactory levels of stability and internal consistency of the DREEM to measure educational climate over multiple observations in a sample of Malaysian medical students. Continued research is required to optimise its psychometric credential across educational settings.

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Students’ perceptions regarding educational environment in an Indian dental school

Abstract: The lack of congenial atmosphere in our institution seems to be due to the attitude of the course organizers.A need for makeover in attitudes and approach on the part of the teachers to make the learning experience more pleasant for the students was made obvious by this study.

Cited by 67 publications

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Students' perceptions of the educational environment in an Iranian Medical School, as measured by The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure

Students' perceptions of the educational environment in an Iranian Medical School, as measured by The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure

The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM): A review of its adoption and use

Stability of DREEM in a Sample of Medical Students: A Prospective Study

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