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Reviewing assessment and feedback strategies in dental schools throughout Europe

Wednesday, 23rd August 2023 - 09:00 to 10:30
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BST (UTC+1)

Duration: 

90 Minute

Venue: 

Spaces 8 & 9 @ The Spine

Reviewing assessment and feedback strategies in dental schools throughout Europe
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Session synopsis: 
Background:

In summative and formative assessments, dental education encourages student learning from a focus on ‘assessment of learning’ toward increasing use of ‘assessment for learning’ (Tonni et al., 2020), thus supporting students to take ownership in processing feedback through reflection and self-assessment. Research has shown that dental education has struggled to implement assessment strategies that meet the highest standards (Miller, 1990). Through assessment, undergraduate and postgraduate dental students are challenged to identify strengths as well as weaknesses in knowledge, skills, and standards. As technology advances the scope for developing innovative assessment strategies seems infinite. The assessment of clinical competence is critical.

This study aims to look at the changing use of assessments in dental education and how summative and formative assessments have and will continue to evolve.

Methods:

A mixed method approach will be adopted. A bespoke questionnaire will be sent to ADEE members to ascertain: i) demographic details, ii) dental student assessments currently in use, iii) how dental student assessments have changed over the past 3 years, and iv) dental teacher thinking on future assessment practices. The questionnaire will be distributed online .

Themed focus groups will be conducted during the ADEE conference 2023. . The three themed focus groups include:

  1. Dental student assessments currently in use
  2. How dental student assessments have changed over the past 3 years
  3. Dental teacher thinking on future assessment practices for their students

Analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data will be undertaken using descriptive statistical and  thematic approaches respectively.

Outcome:

The collection of both quantitative and qualitative data about the development and use of assessment strategies in dental education in Europe will allow teachers to share their experiences and good practice. It is hoped that the findings will generate a consensus regarding the use of assessment in dental education.

Speakers: 

Albert Leung

Professor of Dental Education and Head of Continuing Professional Development
UCL Eastman Dental Institute, UK

Professor Leung is the Foundation Head of the School of Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, University of Medicine and Health Sciences (RCSI). Sponsored by the Irish government, he is leading the 2025 launch of a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) programme, which will become the first community-based undergraduate dentistry degree in Ireland, and the first new undergraduate dentistry programme in over a century.

Professor Leung qualified as a dentist from Dundee University (BDS), received an LLM from Cardiff University, an MA from King’s College London and a PhD from Portsmouth University. He holds the Fellowship in General Dental Surgery from RCSI, Fellowship in Dental Surgery from RCS England, and Fellowship in Dental Surgery from RCPS Glasgow. He is a Fellow of the College of General Dentistry, the Higher Education Academy, and the International College of Dentists. 

His main pedagogic research is in novel teaching techniques and assessment methodologies. His expertise is in integrated restorative based total patient care, innovations in dental education and the development of effective feedback tools to facilitate high quality teaching and learning. He publishes widely in dental education and restorative dental practice.

Professor Leung is a successful international dental educator with notable and consistent cooperative teaching, assessment, curriculum development and capacity building successes in three continents. Has an extensive international academic leadership, strategic, innovation, change management and capacity building portfolio in Dentistry. He has a strong track record on successful developments of new dental programmes, liaising with statutory and funding authorities, fostering collaborations across different jurisdictions. 

He was Professor of Dental Education, Head of Continuing Professional Development and Programme Director of the Restorative Dental Practice Masters at University College London (UCL) Eastman Dental Institute, having successfully supervised over 100 Masters' Dissertations. He has been the Academic Lead and Chief Examiner in clinical skills (dental manikin) for the UK General Dental Council's (GDC) Overseas Registration Examination (ORE) since 2016, having been an Examiner since 2004. He also Chairs the ORE2 Board for the Consortium which comprises the UCL Eastman Dental Institute, Queen Mary University of London, and the Royal College of Surgeons of England.     

Professor Leung served as Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry RCSI between 2020-2023, and was RCSI Vice Chancellor's Strategic Advisor between 2023-2024. He has achieved international distinction including receipt of the Association for Dental Education (ADEE) Excellence in Dental Education Mature Career Award in 2017.

Professor Leung is an External Examiner for the Peninsula Dental School, University of Plymouth. He is on the Editorial Board for the Journal Of Dentistry, and the Jordan Journal of Dentistry. He is on the Dental Schools' Council of Great Britain and Ireland.

Professor Leung received the Association of Dental Education in Europe (ADEE) Mature Career Dental Educator Award in 2017.

Chris Louca

Director and Head
University of Portsmouth Dental Academy

Professor Chris Louca BDS, BSc, PhD, AKC, FFD RCSI, FCGDent is the Director and Head of the University of Portsmouth Dental Academy. He is responsible for the undergraduate and postgraduate education of dentists, dental therapists, dental hygienists and dental nurses, with a strong emphasis on intra-and inter-professional learning. Chris has over 30 years’ experience of teaching, research, innovation and international accreditation/consultancy in dentistry. His previous academic posts include King’s College London and UCL Eastman Dental Institute. He has supervised 8 PhD and over 90 MSc students and his current PG students are researching topics in dental education, dental public health, and dental materials. He presents his work regularly at the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) and Association for Dental Education in Europe (ADEE) and other international conferences. Chris has published over 90 original articles in dental peer reviewed journals. He received the ADEE Mature Career Dental Educator Award in 2015.

Ingrid Tonni

Associate researcher
Dental School of University of Brescia in Italy

Dr Ingrid Tonni holds an Associate research position at the Dental School of University of Brescia in Italy, where she works in the orthodontic and gnathological departments and she has the assignment: "Orthodontic management of patients with cleft lip and palate". She obtained her PhD in 2011 following completion of a part-time study programme at Cardiff University looking at the development of agreed learning outcomes and the associated use and perceived value of a reflective E-Portfolio in a Specialist Orthodontic Training Programme. She has been a teacher at the the Dental School of University of Brescia in Italy for more than 10 years, supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students. She received the Association of Dental Education in Europe (ADEE) Young Career Dental Educator Award in 2015.  She presents her work regularly at national and international conferences and is author of several publications. Ingrid Tonni’s current research interests include education (assessment and feedback), orthodontics, asymmetry, gnathology, and Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. 

Peter Fine

Deputy Director of the Restorative Dental Practice programme
UCL Eastman Dental Institute

Dr Peter Fine is Deputy Director of the Restorative Dental Practice programme at UCL Eastman Dental Institute, UK. He is also Director of the Master’s Degree in Sports Dentistry-Oral Health in Sport at UCL Eastman Dental Institute. He has supervised over 80 MSc projects at UCL Eastman Dental Institute and has lectured throughout the world in both educational and sports dentistry research topics. His current interests in educational research include the role of feedback in ongoing dental education; and in sports dentistry, his research interests include the use of mouthguards as performance enhancing devises and changes to salivary pH during exercise.

Dr Fine received the Association of Dental Education in Europe (ADEE) Mature Career Dental Educator Award in 2019.

 

Call for Abstracts: 

If you are interested in presenting your work in this session we ask you to send a short 200 word abstract to administrator@adee.org no later than 31st March 2023.

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