TY - JOUR
T1 - Validation of the Polish version of the DREEM questionnaire - a confirmatory factor analysis
AU - Wójcik, Dorota
AU - Szalewski, Leszek
AU - Bęben, Adam
AU - Ordyniec-Kwaśnica, Iwona
AU - Roff, Sue
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by National Science Centre, Poland 2021/05/X/ HS6/01258. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC‑BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission.
Copyright:
© 2023. BioMed Central Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/8/15
Y1 - 2023/8/15
N2 - Aim: The aim of our study was to translate and adapt the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire developed by Roff et al. to the cultural conditions in Poland and also to validate it. Studying the learning environment is beneficial because it can identify students' perceptions of their environment and support the staff in reflecting on, planning for and combining proper teaching approaches to improve it.Methods: The DREEM questionnaire was completed by students of all years (first-fifth) in the faculties of dental medicine at the Medical University of Lublin and the Medical University of Gdańsk. The total surveyed population consisted of 650 students. Validity was separated into four phases: (1) translation validity, (2) confirmatory factor analysis, (3) concurrent validity and (4) criterion-related validity.Results: Our study confirmed the original structure of the DREEM tool (GFI = 0.955, AGFI = 0.951, NFI = 0.931, TLI = 0.962, CFI = 0.964, RNI = 0.964, IFI = 0.964, RFI = 0.928, PNFI = 0.885, SRMR = 0.062, RMSEA = 0.043, 90% CI = 0.041-0.046) and obtained very good reliability rates, with Cronbach's alpha > 0.7 for all scales. Only Subscale V achieved a lower Cronbach's alpha of > 0.5. The study was conducted using the test-retest method, which is why the intraclass correlation coefficients for reliability were also calculated; individual items showed both medium and good correspondence.Conclusions: Our study provided good evidence for the reliability and validity of the Polish version of the DREEM. In conclusion, the Polish-language version of the DREEM questionnaire is a reliable and valid instrument for analysing the learning environment for dental students and its factor structure is supported by the data.
AB - Aim: The aim of our study was to translate and adapt the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire developed by Roff et al. to the cultural conditions in Poland and also to validate it. Studying the learning environment is beneficial because it can identify students' perceptions of their environment and support the staff in reflecting on, planning for and combining proper teaching approaches to improve it.Methods: The DREEM questionnaire was completed by students of all years (first-fifth) in the faculties of dental medicine at the Medical University of Lublin and the Medical University of Gdańsk. The total surveyed population consisted of 650 students. Validity was separated into four phases: (1) translation validity, (2) confirmatory factor analysis, (3) concurrent validity and (4) criterion-related validity.Results: Our study confirmed the original structure of the DREEM tool (GFI = 0.955, AGFI = 0.951, NFI = 0.931, TLI = 0.962, CFI = 0.964, RNI = 0.964, IFI = 0.964, RFI = 0.928, PNFI = 0.885, SRMR = 0.062, RMSEA = 0.043, 90% CI = 0.041-0.046) and obtained very good reliability rates, with Cronbach's alpha > 0.7 for all scales. Only Subscale V achieved a lower Cronbach's alpha of > 0.5. The study was conducted using the test-retest method, which is why the intraclass correlation coefficients for reliability were also calculated; individual items showed both medium and good correspondence.Conclusions: Our study provided good evidence for the reliability and validity of the Polish version of the DREEM. In conclusion, the Polish-language version of the DREEM questionnaire is a reliable and valid instrument for analysing the learning environment for dental students and its factor structure is supported by the data.
KW - Humans
KW - Poland
KW - Reproducibility of Results
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires
KW - Students, Medical
KW - Language
KW - Factor Analysis, Statistical
KW - Psychometrics
KW - Dental students
KW - Learning environment
KW - Medical education
KW - DREEM questionnaire
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U2 - 10.1186/s12909-023-04539-z
DO - 10.1186/s12909-023-04539-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 37582803
SN - 1472-6920
VL - 23
JO - BMC Medical Education
JF - BMC Medical Education
IS - 1
M1 - 573
ER -