Rhona M Hanning, Henry Luan, Taryn A Orava, Renata F Valaitis, James K H Jung, Rashid Ahmed
Exploring Student Food Behaviour in Relation to Food Retail over the Time of Implementing Ontario's School Food and Beverage Policy
International journal of environmental research and public health
utilizing blended pedagogy bp radiographic skills may prove effective teaching strategy however studies use bp dentistry quite limited pakistan teaching mostly via traditional didactic lectures dl radiographic interpretation skills undergraduate dental students suboptimal therefore study aims assess whether utilizing bp teach radiographic interpretation skills effective teaching methodology pakistan mixedmethod study conducted final year dental students jinnah medical dental college jmdc two groups students utilized study one taught traditional dl taught bp module bp conducted six weeks postmodule test conducted groups additionally bp group completed modified community inquiry coi survey tool volunteered discuss experiences focused group discussion fgd descriptive statistics computed independent sample ttest used analyse difference scores two groups thematic analysis performed qualitative data mean posttest scores found significantly higher bp group 610 102 compared dl group 444 123 p 0001 ci 95 cronbach alpha 08 mean scores modified coi instrument 40 029 whole instrument 425 022 teaching presence 371 023 social presence 397 016 cognitive presence three cronbachs alpha 075 thematic analysis revealed bp students mutually agreed bp method beneficial appreciation strong support facilitator however challenges like interrupted power supply increased effort requirement students pointed students taught radiographic interpretation skills bp comparison dl higher test scores expressed positive experience demonstrated via modified coi survey fgd considering encouraging results found dental schools incorporate bp teaching methodology followup studies needed support use bp effective teaching methodology dentistry