Survey Item | Mean Score |
Dental materials seems removed from the study of dentistry | 2.11 |
Appreciates the value of dental materials science within the Year 2 dental curriculum | 4.13 |
Prefers PAL compared to PBL in covering learning objectives of new material | 3.65 |
Prefers the PAL work flow compared to PBL | 4.13 |
Prefers face to face didactic lectures for dental materials delivery | 3.65 |
Prefers online synchronous online lectures | 3.43 |
Would prefer asynchronous online lectures | 3.74 |
Comfortable asking questions during didactic lectures | 3.39 |
Easily distracted during online lectures | 3.00 |
Can tolerate about one hour of didactic teaching | 4.04 |
Fundamental lectures helped with understanding material based lectures | 4.26 |
All members of group participated in meaningful discussion during PAL | 3.21 |
Good small group dynamic | 3.04 |
Good large group dynamic | 3.65 |
Large group discussion filled in knowledge gaps from PAL sessions | 3.83 |
Understood content more with PAL versus didactic | 3.08 |
Understood content more with didactic versus PAL | 3.74 |
Authentic clarification of queries happened during large class discussion | 3.82 |
Comfortable answering/ asking peers questions | 3.30 |
Learnt and assimilated questions from peers during PAL | 3.65 |
Prefers PAL over didactic lectures for dental materials delivery | 2.87 |
Secondary school prepared me for this type of learning | 2.60 |
Undergraduate degree prepared me for this type of learning | 2.70 |