Admissions test predictors of performance in a foreign‐trained dentist program

Simon, James A.; King, Patricia A.; Chambers, Danny

doi:10.1002/j.0022-0337.1997.61.5.tb03137.x

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“…Our study found that the conclusions drawn by Simon et al in 1997 22 are still valid today. Itaya et al in 2008 23 found that TOEFL and NBDE I scores are the most positive predictors for GPA.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…Those students’ overall clinical performance was marginally related to the NBDE I and TOEFL and related to the NBDE II (r=0.215) and the dexterity test (r=0.209). In contrast with those conclusions, researchers analyzing the data for seventy‐four students enrolled in the International Dental Studies program at Pacific 22 , 23 found that TOEFL scores were the most significant predictor. That Pacific study 22 agreed with the Loma Linda study in finding bench tests to be relevant predictors of clinical performance as well.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…The 1994 to 2004 classes had a total of 148 students, four of whom failed to complete the program. The first six IDS classes were the subject of research published by Simon et al in 1997; 22 our study is the successor to that one. We had access to all the admissions data used for the IDS program for the designated years, and we also had in our database the students’ grades in the IDS program.…”

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confidence: 89%

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Predictors of Academic Performance for Applicants to an International Dental Studies Program in the United States

Pitigoi-Aron

King²,

Chambers³

2011

Journal of Dental Education

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The number of U.S. and Canadian dental schools offering programs for dentists with degrees from other countries leading to the D.D.S. or D.M.D. degree has increased recently. This fact, along with the diversity of educational systems represented by candidates for these programs, increases the importance of identifying valid admissions predictors of success in international dental student programs. Data from 148 students accepted into the international dental studies program at the University of the Pacific from 1994 through 2004 were analyzed. Dependent variables were comprehensive cumulative GPA at the end of both the first and second years of the two-year program. The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and both Parts I and II of the National Board Dental Examination (NBDE) were significant positive predictors of success. Performance on laboratory tests of clinical skill in operative dentistry and in fixed prosthodontics and ratings from interviewers were not predictive of overall success in the program. Although this study confirms the predictive value of written tests such as the TOEFL and NBDE, it also contributes to the literature documenting inconsistent results regarding other types of predictors. It may be the case that characteristics of individual programs or features of the applicant pools for each may require use of admissions predictors that are unique to schools.

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Predictors of Academic Performance for Applicants to an International Dental Studies Program in the United States

Pitigoi-Aron

King²,

Chambers³

2011

Journal of Dental Education

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“…Thus, this study sought to reduce the number of false positives and increase PPV from the block‐carving test of dexterity instead of using the admission criteria alone. The goal was to determine if a manual dexterity test (MDT) could predict poor performance in restorative laboratory courses above and beyond the current system, which includes undergraduate grade point average (GPA), science grade point average (SGPA), the Dental Aptitude Test (DAT), and the Perceptual Aptitude Test (PAT) score 9– 12 . Originally, when the DAT was introduced by the Council on Dental Education (founded by the American Dental Association) in 1950 working with a committee from the American Association of Dental Schools (now the American Dental Education Association), a chalk carving test was included to measure motor skills.…”

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Reliability and Validity of a Manual Dexterity Test to Predict Preclinical Grades

Gansky

Pritchard²,

Kahl³

et al. 2004

Journal of Dental Education

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The University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry wanted to determine if a predental school manual dexterity test predicts: 1) subsequent grades in preclinical restorative courses, and 2) faculty perceptions of satisfactory performance in these skills that would indicate the student is ready to advance to the clinic. The study population was comprised of all 244 applicants admitted to UCSF School of Dentistry's D.D.S. program from Classes of 2000 to 2002 and who matriculated into the program. The manual dexterity test (MDT) consisted of a two-hour block-carving test. Three preclinical faculty, three clinical faculty, and two basic science faculty graded the blocks. Even after instruction and calibration, faculty varied greatly in their grading (intra-rater reliability kappa statistics ranging from 0.34 to 1.00). Two of three preclinical raters gave No Passes for the MDT in 9.8 percent of the incoming, first-year dental students. Of these twenty-three students, only four (17 percent) were in the lower 10 percent of their classes according to their five preclinical restorative laboratory courses after two years, and four (33 percent) were among the twelve students the three preclinical laboratory directors identified as laboratory cautions. The MDT did not significantly (p=0.342) predict students in the bottom 10 percent after five restorative preclinical laboratory courses, above and beyond current admissions criteria. Among current admissions criteria, PAT score was the only item at least moderately correlated with preclinical average percentile class rank (Spearman correlation = 0.34). In conclusion, the MDT did not appear to add information to the current admissions criteria.

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“…Der har man hatt 2-års kurs for klinisk trening av tannleger med utenlandsk utdanning siden 1987. Selv for kandidater som har meget gode testresultater ved start av kurset må enkelte ha 3 år i programmet (17).…”

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Autorisasjon av tannleger med utdanning fra land utenfor EØS: erfaringer fra lisensprogrammet i Bergen

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Admissions test predictors of performance in a foreign‐trained dentist program

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Predictors of Academic Performance for Applicants to an International Dental Studies Program in the United States

Predictors of Academic Performance for Applicants to an International Dental Studies Program in the United States

Reliability and Validity of a Manual Dexterity Test to Predict Preclinical Grades

Autorisasjon av tannleger med utdanning fra land utenfor EØS: erfaringer fra lisensprogrammet i Bergen

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