Reliability of didactic grades to predict practical skills in an undergraduate dental college in Saudi Arabia

Zawawi, Khalid H.; Afify, Ahmed R.; Yousef, Mohammed; Othman, Hesham Ibrahim; Al-Dharrab, Ayman

doi:10.2147/amep.s72648

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“…Our findings are consistent also with the data of Zawawi et al who investigated four courses (Dental Anatomy, Prosthodontics, Operative Dentistry, and Orthodontics), although the positive correlations in the latter study were course specific (12) . Affifi et al study showed different results in which no correlation between the academic and the practical grades for the three courses (Dental Anatomy, Removable Prosthodontic Denture, Orthodontics) they used in their study (2) .…”

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“…It was suggested that the complex nature of modern dental practice requires broad range of skills that digital dexterity contributes only a small increment, or that technical dental procedures are completely trainable in the course of dental education (11) . Inspite of the positive correlation which was found, it was course specific (12) .…”

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“…Few studies, with inconsistent results, were conducted to look for correlations between dental students' academic grades and their practical clinical grades (2,11,12) . It was suggested that the complex nature of modern dental practice requires broad range of skills that digital dexterity contributes only a small increment, or that technical dental procedures are completely trainable in the course of dental education (11) .…”

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The Correlation between Academic and Practical Achievements of a Group of Jordanian Dental Students = العلاقة بين التحصيل الأكاديمي النظري والتحصيل العملي لمجموعة من طلاب كلية طب الأسنان في الجامعة الأردنية

Al-Asmar¹,

Sabra²

2017

JMJ

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Objectives: In a country where admission to dental schools is based on academic achievement of students, the aim of the study is to investigate the correlation between the practical achievements and the academic performance of dental students. In addition to determining if a correlation exists between dental students' grades in the preclinical courses and their clinical performance. Methods: Academic and preclinical/clinical grades were collected for third, fourth and fifth year students who graduated from the School of Dentistry at The University of Jordan, in 2014, and 2015. Two courses (operative dentistry and fixed prosthodontics) were selected. Correlations comparing academic and practical grades and correlations comparing preclinical and clinical grades were done for the total samples of third, fourth, and fifth year students for each course. Results: Statistically significant weak to moderate positive correlations were found between academic and practical courses in each year and between the practical courses in preclinical and clinical years (P < 0.01). Conclusion: The correlations and its degree indicate that achievement of students in practical dental courses could be partly influenced by their grades in theoretical courses and that their achievement in clinical courses could be partly predicted by their grades in preclinical practical courses. However, other confounding factors such as genuine artistic skills of students, factors related to supervisors of clinical sessions, patients' factors, and tolerability of student to cope with stress of practical or clinical sessions are additional factors that should be considered.

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The Correlation between Academic and Practical Achievements of a Group of Jordanian Dental Students = العلاقة بين التحصيل الأكاديمي النظري والتحصيل العملي لمجموعة من طلاب كلية طب الأسنان في الجامعة الأردنية

Al-Asmar¹,

Sabra²

2017

JMJ

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“…19 Others involve more general measures of traits that could potentially capture dentistry-relevant skills, including spatial ability, 20 broad psychometric tests 21 and other predictors. 22 23 The majority of these approaches have had limited predictive value, with a call to use these as screening tools instead. 1 Unfortunately, such approaches are ethically problematic if there is no empirical evidence to show a relationship between the measure and the ability to practice dentistry.…”

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Early assessment with a virtual reality haptic simulator predicts performance in clinical practice

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BackgroundPrediction of clinical training aptitude in medicine and dentistry is largely driven by measures of a student’s intellectual capabilities. The measurement of sensorimotor ability has lagged behind, despite being a key constraint for safe and efficient practice in procedure-based medical specialties. Virtual reality (VR) haptic simulators, systems able to provide objective measures of sensorimotor performance, are beginning to establish their utility in facilitating sensorimotor skill acquisition, and it is possible that they may also inform the prediction of clinical performance.MethodsA retrospective cohort study examined the relationship between student performance on a haptic VR simulator in the second year of undergraduate dental study with subsequent clinic performance involving patients 2 years later. The predictive ability was tested against a phantom-head crown test (a traditional preclinical dental assessment, in the third year of study).ResultsVR scores averaged across the year explained 14% of variance in clinic performance, while the traditional test explained 5%. Students who scored highly on this averaged measure were ~10 times more likely to be high performers in the clinical crown test. Exploratory analysis indicated that single-trial VR scores did not correlate with real-world performance, but the relationship was statistically significant and strongest in the first half of the year and weakened over time.ConclusionsThe data demonstrate the potential of a VR haptic simulator to predict clinical performance and open up the possibility of taking a data-driven approach to identifying individuals who could benefit from support in the early stages of training.

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“…Investigators in more recent years have concentrated on the development of marking systems centered on specific criteria and checklists as an alternative to the glance and grade method commonly used in clinical sessions, in order to improve rater performance, but the results have been vague ( 7 ). Some researchers found that development of an analytical approach using detailed checklists improved examiner reliability ( 8 , 9 ).…”

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Inter-rater and intra-raters’ variability in evaluating complete dentures insertion procedure in senior undergraduates’ prosthodontics clinics

Alammari

Nawar

2018

Electron Physician

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BackgroundDirect clinical assessment is the mainstay of evaluation in dentistry education. An effective evaluation method in prosthodontics should be equally valid and consistent; however, this is not attained frequently. A limited number of studies have applied an analytic evaluation in prosthodontics.ObjectiveTo compare the intra- and inter-raters’ variability in two evaluation methods: glance and grade (global), and checklist and criteria (analytical). Moreover, to identify the components of the analytical evaluation system and its applicability.MethodsThis cross-sectional study was carried out on outpatients attending removable prosthodontics clinics affiliated with King Abdulaziz University (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) from December 2017 to April 2018. Two prosthodontist examiners evaluated a sample of 35 complete denture cases (20 male, 15 female) twice over a period of five months. Inter-rater and intra-rater agreement were computed using reliability test (interclass correlation coefficient ICC). Data were analyzed in IBM SPSS version 23, using paired-samples t-test, weighted kappa, and Wilcoxon signed-rank test. The level of significance was set at p≤0.05.ResultsThe intra-rater agreement for the first and second exposures under global and analytical evaluation methods with Examiner A was outstanding with 90.7% and 99.8% agreement respectively. While with Examiner B, global was lower but still in the acceptable range with about 78.1%, and 96.1% for the analytical evaluation. Inter-rater reliability analysis showed high agreement between the two raters in the first exposure of the analytical evaluation with 97.3%, while it was 87.5% in the global evaluation. This trend goes the same with analytical in the second exposure with 93.2%; however, the second exposure under global evaluation failed the cut off, which is only 56.6% agreement. In evaluation of inter-raters agreement, the second exposure of the global method demonstrated inconsistency between the two examiners (p=0.002), while the analytical second exposure demonstrated more homogeneity (p=0.050). Intra-rater variability between first and second exposure in analytical evaluation was (0.711 for the first rater and 0.677 for the second rater). Intra-rater variability between first and second exposure in global evaluation was (<0.001 for the first rater and 0.075 for the second rater).ConclusionA simple objective and detailed method to evaluate complete denture insertion procedure was developed, and it showed that both intra-rater and inter-rater agreement were excellent for the analytical method that might overcome errors and subjectivity in evaluation that result from the limitations of global method. Results recommend suitability of using the analytical evaluation to improve reliability between raters.

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Reliability of didactic grades to predict practical skills in an undergraduate dental college in Saudi Arabia

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

The Correlation between Academic and Practical Achievements of a Group of Jordanian Dental Students = العلاقة بين التحصيل الأكاديمي النظري والتحصيل العملي لمجموعة من طلاب كلية طب الأسنان في الجامعة الأردنية

The Correlation between Academic and Practical Achievements of a Group of Jordanian Dental Students = العلاقة بين التحصيل الأكاديمي النظري والتحصيل العملي لمجموعة من طلاب كلية طب الأسنان في الجامعة الأردنية

Early assessment with a virtual reality haptic simulator predicts performance in clinical practice

Inter-rater and intra-raters’ variability in evaluating complete dentures insertion procedure in senior undergraduates’ prosthodontics clinics

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