Students evaluation of University teaching: Case of the clinical prosthodontics training
Journal Title: IP Annals of Prosthodontics and Restorative Dentistry - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Introduction Student assessment of teaching aims to identify the strengths and weaknesses of teaching This study aimed to analyze the evaluation of the clinical prosthodontics teaching by students of the Institute of Odontology and Stomatology of the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar Material and MethodsThis was a crosssectional descriptive study of 103 Master 1 and Master 2 students in dental surgery The variables were related to items concerning framing clinical teaching and assessment of clinical prosthodontics learning during the last 2 years of dental studies Using the Likerts scale the student had to make a quantitative assessment by assigning a score ranging from 1 to 5 depending on the degree of accreditation The SPSS software version 170 was used for statistical analysis The comparison of averages used the Student t test at 5 risk of errorResultsThe majority of the sample 796 felt that the number of teachers was insufficient Teachers were not available according to 514 of students Training objectives were clearly defined for 815 of students For 447 of them the number of course hours was sufficient for clinical learning Concerning the certification evaluation of learning 66 of the students disapproved of the single final formulaConclusionThe practice of clinical teaching evaluation by students is an essential pillar of the overall approach to improve the prosthodontics teaching KeywordsProsthodontics Clinical teaching Assessment Students
Authors and Affiliations
Moctar Gueye, Agnes Gaëlle Kamdom Foko, El Hadj Babacar Mbodj, Falou Diagne
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