The DRC's Educational Climate - DREEM

 

The DREEM questionnaire measures educational climate. Our GP Registrars have completed it anonymously on the last day of each term since July 2001.

DREEM was derived from a Delphi of MMEd participants, followed by further iterations involving international experts. It was then applied and some statistical number crunching was done. The factorisation produced the 5 key themes (teaching qualities, characteristics of teachers etc etc). It was widely tested in several international contexts, forming the basis for a subsequent doctorate.

It was designed and validated for use with medical students but where necessary we have adapted the questions to be suitable for GP Registrars.

The Swindon/Bath Course Organisers use the results to help them review the term and work out how to adapt the next term's organisation and teaching.

 

Section	Mean scores July 2005	Mean scores July 2006		Mean scores July 2001	Key to Scores
1 Students Perception of Learning	36	39		36	0-12 Very Poor 13-24 Teaching is viewed negatively 25-36 A more positive perception 37-48 Teaching is highly thought of
2 Students Perception of Teachers	32	36		32	0-11 Abysmal 12-22 In need of some retraining 23-33 Moving in the right direction 34-44 Model teachers
3 Students Academic Self-Perceptions	21	27		21	0-8 Feelings of total failure 9-16 Many negative aspects 17-24 Feeling more on the positive side 25-32 Confident
4 Students Perception of Atmosphere	36	40		36	0-12 A terrible environment 13-24 There are many issues which need changing 25-36 A more positive atmosphere 37-48 A good feeling overall
5 Students Social Self-Perceptions	19	22		19	0-7 Miserable 8-14 Not a nice place 15-21 Not too bad 22-28 Very good socially
Total of all sections	144	163		143	0-50 Very poor 50-100 Plenty of problems 101-150 More positive than negative 151-200 Excellent

 

Notes

We have compared this term’s scores with the first time we ran the questionnaire, July 2001.

In July 2001 17 GPRs completed forms, compared with 21 July 2006.

July 2005's scores were lower than hoped, due to the disruption from one of our Course Organisers leaving half-way through the term. This term's educational climate appears to be back to its usual high level.

 

Click here for details of the questionnaire.

 

Last update: 29 August 2007