Proposal of e-learning strategy to teach Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) to undergraduate and graduate students

Camargo, L. B., Raggio, D. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0048-2068, Bonacina, C. F., Wen, C. L., Mendes, F. M., Bonecker, M. J. S. and Haddad, A. E. 2014. Proposal of e-learning strategy to teach Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) to undergraduate and graduate students. BMC Research Notes 7 (1) , 456. 10.1186/1756-0500-7-456

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Abstract

Background The aim of this study was to evaluate e-learning strategy in teaching Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) to undergraduate and graduate students. The sample comprised 76 participants—38 dental students and 38 pediatric dentistry students—in a specialization course. To evaluate knowledge improvement, participants were subjected to a test performed before and after the course. Results A single researcher corrected the tests and intraexaminer reproducibility was calculated (CCI = 0.991; 95% IC = 0.975–0.996). All students improved their performances after the e-learning course (Paired t-tests p < 0.001). The means of undergraduate students were 4.7 (initial) and 6.4 (final) and those of graduate students were 6.8 (initial) and 8.2 (final). The comparison of the final evaluation means showed a statistically significant difference (t-tests p < 0.0001). Conclusions The e-learning strategy has the potential of improving students’ knowledge in ART. Mature students perform better in this teaching modality when it is applied exclusively via distance learning.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Dentistry
Additional Information:	This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
Publisher:	BioMed Central
ISSN:	1756-0500
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	29 June 2022
Last Modified:	16 May 2023 04:56
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/148771

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