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Acquisition of psychomotor skills in tooth preparation using self‐paced instruction
Author(s) -
Dilley GJ,
Machen JB,
Dilley DC,
Howden EF
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.1978.42.8.tb01202.x
Subject(s) - psychomotor learning , class (philosophy) , psychology , medical education , mathematics education , computer science , medicine , cognition , neuroscience , artificial intelligence
Self‐paced instruction whereby students are provided with learning resources and allowed to learn at their own rate–with or without assistance from instructors–is increasingly being used in dental education. The wide diversity of entering dental student experience with psychomotor tasks suggests that preclinical psychomotor skill development should adapt well to self‐paced learning. This study compared self‐paced instruction to traditional preclinical teaching of psychomotor skills in cavity preparation. Performance by the self‐paced class was significantly better than that of the traditional class on two procedures. There were no significant differences among the other procedures tested.