Comparing student and staff perceptions of the “Educational Climate” in Spanish Dental Schools using the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure

Objective To compare the perceptions of students and teachers of the “Educational Climate” (EC) in Spanish public dental schools. Methods A group of 1064 students and 354 teachers from six Spanish public dental schools responded to the DREEM questionnaire. This has 50 items grouped into five subscales: perception of learning (Learning); perception of teachers (Teachers); academic self‐perceptions (Academic); perception of the atmosphere in the faculty (Atmosphere); and social self‐perceptions (Social). The DREEM scale provides results for each item, each subscale and the overall EC. Results The EC scores were 123.2 (61.6%) for the students and 134.1 (67.0%) for the teachers (P