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Table 3 Student self-evaluation before and after completing the SOS-Course (questions 1 to 12)

From: COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on dental education: digitalization – progress or regress? Example of an online hands-on course

n = x (%)

general surgical skills

special surgical skills

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Q5

Q6

Q7

Q8

Q9

Q10

Q11

Q12

before

Abstentions:

6

5

7

30

27

115

119

118

110

114

80

77

Grade 1:

10 (4.4%)

15 (6.6%)

10 (4.5%)

11 (5.5%)

9 (4.4%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

1 (0.8%)

0 (0%)

6 (4.0%)

4 (2.6%)

2:

65 (28.9%)

89 (39.4%)

82 (36.8%)

53 (26.4%)

60 (29.4%)

10 (8.6%)

5 (4.5%)

6 (5.3%)

10 (8.3%)

4 (3.4%)

28 (18.5%)

30 (19.5%)

3:

11 (49.3%)

93 (41.2%)

94 (42.2%)

75 (37.3%)

94 (46.1%)

25 (21.6%)

19 (17.1%)

18 (15.9%)

21 (17.4%)

24 (20.5%)

55 (36.4%)

60 (39.0%)

4:

26 (11.6%)

16 (7.1%)

32 (14.3%)

41 (20.4%)

22 (10.8%)

27 (23.3%)

27 (24.3%)

28 (24.8%)

34 (28.1%)

31 (26.5%)

27 (17.9%)

25 (16.2%)

5:

7 (3.1%)

8 (3.5%)

3 (1.3%)

14 (7.0%)

11 (5.4%)

25 (21.6%)

31 (27.9%)

31 (27.4%)

20 (16.5%)

24 (20.5%)

13 (8.6%)

14 (9.1%)

6:

6 (2.7%)

5 (2.2%)

2 (0.9%)

7 (3.5%)

8 (3.9%)

29 (25.0%)

29 (26.1%)

30 (26.5%)

35 (28.9%)

34 (29.1%)

22 (14.6%)

21 (13.6%)

Median:

3.00

2.00

3.00

3.00

3.00

4.00

5.00

5.00

4.00

4.00

3.00

3.00

IQR:

1

1

1

2

1

3

2

2

3

2

1

1

after

Abstentions:

1

1

1

11

1

2

2

2

2

3

2

2

Grade 1:

30 (14.6%)

31 (15.1%)

17 (8.3%)

24 (12.3%)

60 (29.4%)

39 (19.1%)

38 (18.8%)

44 (21.6%)

33 (16.2%)

27 (13.4%)

34 (16.7%)

40 (19.6%)

2:

138 (67.3%)

128 (62.4%)

132 (64.4%)

80 (41.0%)

119 (58.3%)

106 (52.0%)

103 (51.0%)

107 (52.5%)

107 (52.5%)

100 (49.5%)

87 (42.6%)

103 (50.5%)

3:

33 (16.1%)

41 (20.0%)

47 (22.9%)

75 (38.5%)

21 (10.3%)

49 (24.0%)

53 (26.2%)

47 (23.0%)

50 (24.5%)

60 (29.7%)

66 (32.4%)

53 (26.0%)

4:

3 (1.5%)

4 (2.0%)

7 (3.4%)

13 (6.7%)

3 (1.5%)

8 (3.9%)

7 (3.5%)

4 (2.0%)

13 (6.4%)

13 (6.4%)

13 (6.4%)

6 (2.9%)

5:

1 (0.5%)

1 (0.5%)

1 (0.5%)

3 (1.5%)

0 (0%)

2 (1.0%)

1 (0.5%)

2 (1.0%)

1 (0.5%)

2 (1.0%)

3 (1.5%)

1 (0.5%)

6:

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

1 (0.5%)

0 (0%)

1 (0.5%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

1 (0.5%)

1 (0.5%)

Median:

2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

IQR:

0

0

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

0

0

1

Wilcoxon signed-rank test, p  = 

Significance level: 0.05

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

  1. Q1: Handling of surgical instruments; Q2: Manual surgical skills; Q3: Theoretical skills; Q4: Ability to coach and direct others; Q5: Suturing techniques; Q6: Z-Plasty; Q7: Kite-Flap; Q8: H-Flap; Q9: Full thickness skin graft (removal and processing); Q10: Free mucosal transplant, Q11: Tooth extraction; Q12: Mucoperiosteal Flap.Grading with German school grades 1 to 6: 1 = very good (the performance meets the requirements to a particular degree), 2 = good (the performance fully meets the requirements), 3 = satisfactory (the performance generally meets the requirements), 4 = sufficient (the performance has deficiencies but still meets the requirements), 5 = poor (the performance does not meet the requirements, but the necessary basic knowledge is available and the deficiencies can be remedied in the foreseeable future), 6 = insufficient (the performance does not meet the requirements, the basic knowledge is so incomplete that deficiencies cannot be remedied in the foreseeable future). The answer “I don´t know” was counted as abstention. IQR = Inter Quartile Range
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