Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Distance Learning in Dental Education During COVID-19 Pandemic

OpenAlex İngilizce

Objective: COVID-19 pandemic affect dental education as well as everything. Online education become more popular in dentistry nowadays. It was aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of online lessons and satisfaction of the students about distance learning. Methods: It was asked to respond a 42-items questionnaire at University of Uşak, School of Dentistry. Seven questions were related to demographic data. Thirty-two lickert and three multiple choice questions to determine the quality of current non-clinical and clinical education and to form a guide for future online dental education. The answers were analyzed on IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 22.0 (IBM Corp, Armonk, NY, USA). Results: This study aimed to reach 316 dental students, of which 302(95.5%) responded (Cronbach Alfa= 0.964). Factor analysis was performed to check the suitability of the data. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy was 0.961 and Barlett’s test of sphericity was significant(p < 0.001). Male students more pleased than female students in term of distance learning(p=0.032). Foreign students felt more comfortable participating actively in online lessons than face-to-face(p=0.047). Fourth grade students were significantly pleased distance learning than first and second grades students(p