Aligning clinical assessment with course elements in prosthodontic dentistry: a South African case

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dc.contributor.authorMaart, Ronel Deidre
dc.contributor.authorBitzer, Elias M.
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-11T19:34:38Z
dc.date.available2014-01-11T19:34:38Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractClinical tests were introduced and implemented as an additional clinical assessment tool in the Prosthodontic curriculum of the fourth year undergraduate dentistry program at one South African university. This study compared the relationship between the students’ performance in the clinical tests and daily clinical grades on the one hand with their theoretical performance on the other. It also explored the perceptions of the academic staff on the validity of clinical tests as a clinical assessment tool. An analysis of the test results of fourth-year dental students showed insignificant relationships between students’ clinical daily grade assessment marks and their marks for assessing theory. However, clinical assessment via tests is well accepted by the course staff and they perceived them to be more reliable than daily clinical grade assessment methods. The findings of the study support other reported studies which concluded that the daily grade of Dentistry students poorly correlate with their competency exams module. The findings also relate well with the lecturers’ views that clinical tests were more reliable as a clinical assessment tool than students’ daily clinical mark.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationMaart, R.D. & Bitzer, E.M. (2013). Aligning clinical assessment with course elements in prosthodontic dentistry: a South African case. Journal of Dental Education, 77(9): 1129-1139en_US
dc.identifier.issn0022-0337
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/934
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherAmerican Dental Education Associationen_US
dc.rightsCopyright American Dental Education Association, http://www.jdentaled.org. Permission was granted for inclusion of the file in the Repository.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectProsthodontic educationen_US
dc.subjectClinical educationen_US
dc.subjectAssessmenten_US
dc.subjectClinical assessmenten_US
dc.subjectConstructive alignmenten_US
dc.subjectDental educationen_US
dc.titleAligning clinical assessment with course elements in prosthodontic dentistry: a South African caseen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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