Social Media Usage by Dental Hygiene Educators
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Purpose: It has been widely studied that personal social media use engages all age demographics to provide a platform for communication with family and friends.Modern day students expect technology to be used in the classroom to enhance educational experiences.What is less studied is the utilization of social media in the dental hygiene classroom.The purpose of this study was to investigate the usage of social media by dental hygiene faculty personally, professionally and as an educational tool.Methods: The researchers developed a 25-question survey instrument to investigate the use of social media by dental hygiene educators teaching at least one didactic course.The survey included demographic data; personal, professional and educational use of twelve common social media sites, and attitudinal questions about social media.An email was sent to 379 dental hygiene program directors in the United States and Canada to disseminate to their faculty.Results: A total of 120 responses were received.An exact response rate could not be calculated because the number of didactic faculty per dental hygiene program was unknown.The researchers estimated 3 didactic faculty per program giving approximately a 12.5% response rate.Over half of the respondents (57.7%) were in the age range of 46iii 64, with 65% of respondents having taught less than 20 years and a majority teaching in baccalaureate programs.While Facebook was the most utilized site for personal use (78.3%),LinkedIn was the most frequently accessed for professional use (57.5%) and YouTube was almost exclusively accessed for educational use (68.3%) of those educators that reported any social media usage.Approximately half of dental hygiene educators felt that mobile technologies create better learning environments.However, nearly half agree that these technologies were distracting to students.A large majority felt that students were accessing social media during class time.Open-ended responses regarding classroom use included support for using social media to post videos to supplement learning, utilizing a variety of sites for video conferencing, students creating a website to promote oral health, and creating a closed Facebook group for the class.Conclusion: While a large majority of dental hygiene faculty use social media personally, social media is underutilized in the dental hygiene classroom for educational use.Time was the major barrier to integration of social media technologies in the classroom.This study identified extensive room for growth of engagement with social media in the dental hygiene classroom.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".