BACKGROUND Postural control of mouth breathing school aged children. AIM To compare the posture and body balance of school aged children groups, with and without oral breathing considering the variable gender. METHOD The study was developed at a municipal school in the city of Santa Maria (Brazil) and received prior approval of the ethics committee of the University of Santa Maria. The stud...

INTRODUCTION The oral examination is a traditional method for assessing the developing physician's medical knowledge, clinical reasoning and interpersonal skills. The typical oral examination is a face-to-face encounter in which examiners quiz examinees on how they would confront a patient case. The advantage of the oral exam is that the examiner can adapt questions to the examinee's response. ...

Students' higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) due to the application of oral Assessment and are usually compared using experimental research in two separate groups. The group consisted 31 students, control 32 students was taken a simple random sampling technique from population 315 students. HOTS data were collected utilizing test consisting 5 items tested for validity, reliability coefficient ...

The objective of this study was to compare the impact on knowledge and counseling skills of face-to-face and Internet-based oral health training programs on medical students. Participants consisted of 148 (82 percent) of the 180 invited students attending their fifth academic year at the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brasil, in 2007. The interventions took place during a three-m...

Background: Oral cancer is one of the most significant reasons death in India. The quantitative and qualitative assessment AgNORs parameters has been used oncology for both diagnostic prognostic objectives. number distribution AgNOR nucleus (configuration) were helpful detecting predicting prognosis various neoplasias. Aim: To assess biologic aggressiveness leukoplakia, oral submucous fibrosis ...

In this review article, empirical studies published from 2004 through 2014 on second-language (L2) oral proficiency testing are analyzed, with a specific focus on discourse and social interaction in such tests. Taking three common test setups, oral proficiency interviews (OPIs), paired peer tests, and group peer tests as an organizing principle for the studies examined, recent developments in L...

This study investigates one dimension of personality, extroversion-introversion, and examines its potential impact on learner L2 oral performance. The study is innovative in that it analyzes not only the correlation between degree of extroversion and assessment scores based on analytic scoring but also the correlation between degree of extroversion and the discourse measures of accuracy, fluenc...