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FEM: Revista de la Fundación Educación Médica

On-line version ISSN 2014-9840Print version ISSN 2014-9832

Abstract

RIVERA-IRATCHET, Monserrat et al. Educational environment of Chilean university students. A retrospective look since the COVID-19 pandemic. FEM (Ed. impresa) [online]. 2023, vol.26, n.2, pp.59-65.  Epub June 05, 2023. ISSN 2014-9840.  https://dx.doi.org/10.33588/fem.262.1265.

Introduction.

The perception of the educational environment (EA) was identified in a sample of university students, during the COVID-19 pandemic and it was contrasted with other previous findings in non-pandemic times.

Subjects and methods.

The An assessment of the dundee ready education environment measure (DREEM) questionnaire was applied to 100 students with a mean age of 22.57 ± 2.62 years and from the second to fifth years of the degree, in addition to some general sociodemographic factors. The information was analyzed with the statistical program SPSS applying Cronbach’s alpha tests (0.939), Shapiro-Wilk for men, Kolmogorov-Smirnov in women and Anova to the total sample, in addition to descriptive statistics to observe the distribution of variables sex and grade.

Results.

In the total score of the questionnaire there were no significant differences by sex and the dispersion of the responses was homogeneous. The majority had a positive perception of EA, however, the upper classes reported a lower perception of EA. The domain Perception of teachers was the highest, and the lowest was Social Self-perception. According to sex, there were no statistical differences between domains.

Conclusions.

When contrasting the data with those of other investigations in the non-pandemic period, the differences observed were minor, discordant in the teaching domain and coincident in the domain of social perception with manifestations of stress.

Keywords : DREEM; Educational environment; Higher education; Medical education; Pandemic; Psychometric analysis.

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