Dental Students’ Didactic and Psychomotor Skills Performance in Dental Anatomy and Preclinical Operative Dentistry Courses in a Saudi Governmental School

Table 1

Pearson’s correlation matrix and values for dental anatomy and preclinical operative dentistry didactic and psychomotor skills percentage scores for male and female students combined.

	Didactic-dental anatomy	Didactic-preclinical operative	Psychomotor-dental anatomy	Psychomotor-cavity preparation	Psychomotor-composite restoration
Didactic-dental anatomy	—
Didactic-preclinical operative	R = 0.606 ()	—	—
Psychomotor-dental anatomy	R = 0.539 ()		—
Psychomotor-cavity preparation	—	R = 0.169 ()	R = 0.434 ()	—
Psychomotor-composite restoration	—	R = 0.200 ()	R = 0.253 ()	R = 0.264 ()	—