Bravo-Bown, J.; Chung, C.; García, F.; Nikolic, L. & Pizarro, C.
Summary
The aims was to determine cognitive skills most frequently evaluated in the written tests final drive applied during 2013, in some clinicalcourses in the Department of Dentistry at the University of Antofagasta. A quantitative study of an observational, prospective, transversal and analytical which analyzed the written tests final drive in the courses of Periodontics, Rehabilitation, Operative, Surgery and Endodontics in the Department of Dentistry the University of Antofagasta. In the analysis and determination of the cognitive abilities of each question two evaluators participated independently. A protocol for determining cognitive abilities, an instrument that was validated by experts was used. The observations made by the evaluators were averaged and expressed as relative frequencies (%), was used SPSS software (v.22). 95.8 % of the questions analyzed evaluated lower cognitive abilities and 4.12 % higher. The largest proportion of the questions analyzed correspond to the cognitive and knowledge level (71.9 %) lower than the evaluation (1.5 %). Of the 5 subjects analyzed which develop most often they are Periodontology higher Cognitive Skills (12 %), Endodontics (3.3 %) and Operatoria (2.1 %).
KEY WORDS: higher education, education in dentistry, evaluation.
How to cite this article
BRAVO-BOWN, J.; CHUNG, C.; GARCÍA, F.; NIKOLIC, L. & PIZARRO, C. Determination of cognitive skills in differents clinics courses of dentistry of the University of Antofagasta, Chile. Int. J. Odontostomat., 10(2):309-313, 2016.