background and purpose: teaching is a mutual and cooperative process in which the learner and teacher both get affected, thus its effectiveness should be studied from the viewpoint of students and teachers so that by approximating the viewpoints, more effectiveness can be achieved in education, therefore we aimed to study the characteristics of effective teaching from the viewpoint of students ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of professional preparation among clinical instructors employed in baccalaureate dental hygiene programs in the U.S. and to examine clinical instructors' and students' perceived need for educational preparation. The data-generating sample consisted of 285 dental hygiene clinical students and 76 dental hygiene clinical instructors fr...

The original MASS course on which this text is based ran for 14 weeks, with three 50-minute lectures in each week (given by the second author). This structure has been preserved in the present book and may be used as a rough guide if you wish to use this book as the text for a class. However, some circumstances of the original course are worth noting. As part of the MASS program, the students, ...