An educational approach for early student self-assessment in clinical periodontology

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العنوان: An educational approach for early student self-assessment in clinical periodontology
المؤلفون: Shaun Ramlogan, Vidya Raman
المصدر: BMC Medical Education, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2022)
BMC Medical Education
بيانات النشر: BMC, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
مصطلحات موضوعية: Cognitive, LC8-6691, Research, education, General Medicine, Special aspects of education, Education, Self-assessment, Humans, Medicine, Periodontology, Clinical Competence, Educational Measurement, Students, Education, Dental, Clinical skills, Education, Medical, Undergraduate
الوصف: Background Self-assessment is a mandated educational requirement for use in dental undergraduate programmes. It is weakly supported for use in early clinical training and studies are criticized for the conceptual and methodology shortfalls. The aim of the study was to compare the alignment of student self-assessment to both staff assessment and written exams in early clinical training using an educational approach. Methods In 2014-2015, 55 third-year dental students completed three educational sessions comprising of (a) classroom teaching (lecture, video) with post-lesson written exam and (b) clinical activity with student self-assessment, staff assessment and student reflection. An intra-individual analysis approach, staff validation, and student scoring standardization were implemented. Cognitive (clinical competency) and non-cognitive (professionalism) items were separated in the analyses. Results There were medium correlations (Spearman’s rho, r) between student self-assessment and staff assessment scores for cognitive items (r, 0.32) and for non-cognitive items (r, 0.44) for all three combined sessions. There were large correlations for individual sessions. Compared to the post-lesson written exam, students showed small correlation (r, 0.22, 0.29) and staff showed medium correlation (r, 0.31, 0.34) for cognitive and non-cognitive items. Students showed improvements in their mean scores for both cognitive (t-test; p > 0.05) and non-cognitive items (t-test; p = 0.000). Mean scores of students were not different statistically from that of staff (p > 0.05). Conclusions Students may adequately act as self-assessors at the beginning of their clinical work in periodontology. Self-assessment may potentially improve the clinical performance. Self-assessment may be nurtured through clear guidelines, educational training strategies, feedback and reflection leading to better evaluative judgement and lifelong learning.
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1472-6920
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::b30f5cfcbfc9f1af8c6d87f5515d7786
https://doaj.org/article/7cfe0c0e46d2418e90dd232f51692393
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....b30f5cfcbfc9f1af8c6d87f5515d7786
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE