Improving oral examinations

Relationshipbetween Oral ConditionandBoneDensity from ResultsofPublic HealthScreening Examinations

We have been studying the relationships between results ofosteoporosis screening examinations and those ofdental health checkups, and have reported the relationship between number efremaining teeth and bone density in the calcaneus (%YAM). Further, that relationship was also examined using Functional Tboth EvaLuatien Score (FTES) results, which we found able to quantify and numerica[[y express ...

Improving multiple-choice questions to better assess dental student knowledge: distractor utilization in oral and maxillofacial pathology course examinations.

How many incorrect response options (known as distractors) to use in multiple-choice questions has been the source of considerable debate in the assessment literature, especially relative to influence on the likelihood of students' guessing the correct answer. This study compared distractor use by second-year dental students in three successive oral and maxillofacial pathology classes that had ...

Experiences in Modeling Clinical Examinations in Oral Medicine Using OWL

Abstract. This article describes the modeling of clinical examinations in oral medicine using OWL. Based on experiences from our previous work and knowledge model, requirements for an ontology for examinations in oral medicine are identified. OWL can be used to address most, but not all, of the requirements. We found a lack of guidance for several design choices and for development of OWL ontol...

Poor inter-rater reliability on mock anesthesia oral examinations.

PURPOSE Inter-rater reliability (IRR) and communication skills are both important factors that have been shown to affect oral examination scores. This study was designed to test: 1) IRR of a group of American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) graders who graded in true isolation; 2) the effect of teaching residents examination techn...

Policy on Mandatory School-entrance Oral Health Examinations.