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Table 3 Course grade distribution comparisons between the Summer quarter 2020 online cohort and the Summer quarter 2019 face-to-face cohort (In parenthesis: Face-to-face cohort)

From: Online learning during COVID-19 produced equivalent or better student course performance as compared with pre-pandemic: empirical evidence from a school-wide comparative study

 

Courses

Course grades

Chi square statistic

p

Higher-performing cohort

A

B

C

D

F

D1 class

Anatomy & Histology

79

(36)

43

(71)

19

(32)

5

(4)

0

(1)

27.37

0.00**

Online

Integrated Clinical Science I (ICS I): Orientation to Clinical Practice (Lecture)

63

(11)

71

(102)

9 (31)

2

(0)

0

(1)

57.20

0.00**

Online

Fundamentals of Restorative Dentistry

22

(18)

56 (42)

57

(81)

10 (3)

0

(1)

11.34

0.02*

Online

D2

class

Practice Management

66

(55)

66 (70)

11 (19)

0

(0)

0

(0)

3.25

0.20

No difference

Integrated Clinical Science II (ICS II)

21 (32)

42

(50)

64 (59)

13 (2)

3

(0)

14.25

0.00**

Face-to-face

Pediatric Dentistry

17

(6)

62

(64)

52

(51)

10

(19)

2

(3)

8.30

0.08

No difference

Periodontics

34

(25)

88

(90)

21

(28)

0

(0)

0

(0)

2.40

0.30

No difference

Removable Prosthodontics (Lecture)

17

(16)

64

(60)

53 (56)

9 (11)

0

(0)

0.44

0.93

No difference

Occlusion

37 (28)

81 (76)

24 (39)

1

(0)

0

(0)

5.98

0.11

No difference

D3

class

Clinical Care of Complex Needs

89 (73)

52 (64)

2

(3)

0

(0)

0

(0)

2.99

0.22

No difference

I1

class

Clinical Pharmacology & Pathology

22

(26)

3

(0)

1

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

4.33

0.11

No difference

Integrated Clinical Science I (ICS I): Orientation to Clinical Practice (Lecture)

11

(8)

13 (14)

2

(3)

0

(1)

0

(0)

1.73

0.63

No difference

Integrated Preclinical Science I (IPS I):

Direct & Indirect Restorative Concepts (Lecture)

17 (18)

9

(7)

0

(1)

0

(0)

0

(0)

1.28

0.53

No difference

Removable Prosthodontics (Lecture)

9

(11)

15 (12)

2

(2)

0

(0)

0

(1)

1.53

0.67

No difference

I2

class

Practice Management

13

(9)

11

(8)

1

(7)

0

(0)

0

(0)

5.682

0.06

No difference

Pediatric Dentistry

4

(1)

14 (14)

7 (11)

0

(2)

0

(0)

4.53

0.20

No difference

Clinical Care of Complex Needs

21 (13)

4

(11)

0

(0)

0

(0)

0

(0)

5.65

0.01*

Online

  1. (** p < .01; * p < .05.)