Objectives: The purpose of this cross sectional study is to investigate student perceptions of learning environments at a major Australian University. Various aspects of environment are compared between courses, year levels, educational backgrounds and gender. Methods: The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) and a demographic questionnaire were completed by 548 undergraduate stud...

INTRODUCTION The Rural Clinical School of Western Australia (RCSWA) provides 25% of Western Australia's medical students in their first full clinical year with a longitudinal integrated clerkship in rural and remote areas. They live and work in 10 different sites in groups of 3 to 10 members. This study aimed to discover if students at the smaller sites were disadvantaged by the reduced number ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to measure the students' perceptions of the educational environment in a medical school undergoing curricular transition from a traditional to a problem-based learning (PBL) program in the academic year 2006-2007. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) was used to evaluate perception of the educational environment. Mult...

AIM The purpose of the study was to evaluate students' perceptions of conditions prevailing in Tagore Dental College. METHODS Data were collected from all students enrolled in 2013, using the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) forms filled in by them. For this exercise, prior approval from the Tagore Dental College Ethics Committee was obtained. RESULTS The global score for ...

background : if an institute is looking for improvement of its learning environment, a reliable and valid assessment tool is needed for measurement of the educational environment .the dundee ready educational environment measure (dreem) has been used in various studies to evaluate the educational environment. however, psychometric evaluations of the instrument seem necessary, for all known vers...