nation of competency to begin independent dental practice can only be achieved based on testing involving patients because that is what dentists do. In fact such testing should be in realistic contexts, including diagnosis and management of long-term, comprehensive care. The Chambers and Loos study was written to demonstrate that one-shot evaluation is too unreliable to support high-stakes prof...

The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing emphasize the importance of documenting and describing the procedures followed in developing valid test content. As a result, the Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations, the testing agency responsible for administering the National Board Dental Examination Part I and Part II, routinely communicates information about the validity ...

AIM This study examined how one pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing program at a public university in the southeastern United States integrated concepts and issues of culture and culturally competent practice into its curriculum. BACKGROUND Teaching and learning about culturally competent practice in pre-licensure nursing programs are essential to ensure a culturally competent health care wor...

Teacher residencies have been an ongoing discussion in the educator preparation world for nearly a decade. This paper describes promising practice program design at university that offers alternative pathways to licensure meet demands of school districts, especially economically disadvantaged communities one region United States. The one-year residency model was developed address teacher shorta...

We assess all 4 of our major learning objectives/outcomes every year according to the assessment plan established in addition to assessing our mission, philosophy, goals, curriculum plan, students (admission requirements, progress, successful retention, success on the national licensure examination, outcomes), faculty, and clinical faculty. We established our assessment plan with the developmen...