Relationships of admissions data and measurements of psychological constructs with psychomotor performance of dental technology students

Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 874-882

  Evans, James G ^a   Dirks, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental education; Dental laboratory technology; Personality; Psychomotor skills; Spatial ability

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL TECHNOLOGY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFERENTIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STUDENT; TEACHING; TOOTH; TRUST; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CURRICULUM; DENTAL ASSISTANT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; LABORATORY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CURRICULUM; DENTAL TECHNICIANS; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LABORATORIES, DENTAL; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY, DENTAL;

EID: 0035464626     PISSN: 00220337     EISSN: 19307837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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