The effect of learning style and general self-efficacy on satisfaction of e-Learning in dental students

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INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on education. e-Learning has been becoming most popular. Satisfaction of the student is one of important goal of e-Learning, therefore factors affecting this satisfaction should be considered extensively. This study aims to evaluate the effect of learning style and General Self-Efficacy (GSE) on satisfaction of e-Learning in dental student.

METHOD: Electronic questionnaires were sent to 85 fifth and sixth-year students who had passed the face-to-face orthodontics course in the previous semester and were studying online orthodontics at the time of this study. Three questionnaires were used including Soloman and Felder learning styles index, General self-efficacy questionnaire and Satisfaction questionnaire for online education.

RESULTS: The results of the reliability test showed that Cronbach's alpha index for the self-efficacy and satisfaction questionnaire was 0.836 and 0.96, respectively. The correlation between satisfaction and the dimensions of learning style showed that the active dimension of processing information had a significant relationship with the level of satisfaction. In the understanding dimension, a relatively strong correlation was observed in the Global dimension. Moderate significant relationship between the total score of self-efficacy and the level of satisfaction has been found.

CONCLUSION: The results of the present study highlight the necessity of more studies regarding defining effective on student satisfaction during e-Learning. GSES and active learning style in the processing dimension and global learning style in the understanding dimension affect students' satisfaction.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

BMC medical education - 21(2021), 1 vom: 31. Aug., Seite 463

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Baherimoghadam, Tahereh [VerfasserIn]
Hamedani, Shahram [VerfasserIn]
Mehrabi, Manoosh [VerfasserIn]
Naseri, Navid [VerfasserIn]
Marzban, Nooshin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Distance learning
E-Learning
General self-efficacy questionnaire
Journal Article
Learning styles
Student satisfaction

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 06.09.2021

Date Revised 06.09.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12909-021-02903-5

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM33004642X