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THE STRUCTURE OF CLINICAL SCIENCE INSTRUCTION IN COLLEGES OF DENTISTRY (STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO)
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among measures of organizational size, organizational environment, organizational technology, and organizational structure. The dependent variables in this study are measures of organizational structure. The setting for the study is all of the fully operational 59 public and private dental colleges in the United States in 1983. Organizational size is measured by the size of the dental student body. Organizational environment is measured by public-private status, state income per student, total budget per student, tuition income per student, clinic income per student, research income per student, clinic expenditures per student, and students' entrance examination scores. Organizational technology is measured by the presence of graduate programs, incidence of multidisciplinary clinics, minimum clinic requirement, average number of procedures completed, hours in clinic per week, clinic student-faculty ratio one year ago, clinic student-faculty ratio two years ago, and discipline. Organizational structure is measured by college student-faculty ratio and clinic student-faculty ratio. A series of regression analyses are used to explain the variance in student-faculty ratios for public and private colleges separately and for the variance in student-faculty ratios in seven discipline clinics separately. The seven disciplines examined in this study are endodontics, fixed prosthodontics, operative dentistry, oral surgery, pedodontics, periodontics, and removable prosthodontics. The major findings of this study are: total budget per student is the best predictor of public college student-faculty ratios at r = -.66 and it is also the best predictor of private college student-faculty ratios at r = -.72; college student-faculty ratio and two technology variables explained 74 percent of the variance in the clinic student-faculty ratio in periodontics; and the student-faculty ratios among the disciplines differed significantly. The most important aspect of this study is that clinic student-faculty ratios are documented for seven disciplines in American colleges of dentistry.
Subject Area
Higher education
Recommended Citation
DUBOIS, LINDA MARIE, "THE STRUCTURE OF CLINICAL SCIENCE INSTRUCTION IN COLLEGES OF DENTISTRY (STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO)" (1986). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8614449.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8614449