| Title | Strengthening Student's Self-Reflective Skills and Enhancing Assessment Consistency in Restorative Dentistry via a New Digital Dental Technology |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Dentistry |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 1 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2017 |
| Completion | 07/31/2019 |
| Project Summary | Digital technology systems have recently been introduced to support students’ development of restorative dentistry skills by rendering 3-D images of tooth preparations with various measurements to help students understand their operating precision, and to reduce instructor standardization difficulties with assessment of student skills. While our ultimate goal is to implement a new approach to support interactive learning, the aim of this pilot project is to evaluate the feasibility of using digital technology for more objective assessments of tooth preparation skills specifically to (i) explore how to maximize strengthening students’ self-reflective skills using digital technology, (ii) compare student clinical skills derived using digitial technology with a previous cohort of students without this digital experience, and (iii) develop a more consistent instructor standardization student assessment tool in the area of restorative dentistry using the new digital technology based on experience gained in this project. |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2017/2018 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Vincent Lee |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 27,220 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Vincent Lee, Assistant Professor, Oral Health Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry |
| Project Report | 2017-TLEF-SP-Final-V.Lee-WEB.pdf |