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Relationship Between Dental Hygiene Students’ Performance in an Oral Radiology Course and the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination: A Retrospective Study
Author(s) -
Liang Hui,
DeWald Janice P.,
Solomon Eric S.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.21815/jde.018.016
Subject(s) - dental hygiene , medicine , oral hygiene , oral examination , dentistry , hygiene , medical education , family medicine , oral health , pathology
Dental hygiene students’ performance in oral radiology courses may give an early indication of their readiness prior to taking the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination (NBDHE). The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between dental hygiene students’ performance in an oral radiology lecture course and their performance on the NBDHE. Data were collected for all 117 dental hygiene students at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry from 2006 to 2009 who took the NBDHE during their second year of the program. Their final grades and scores on three written section examinations in an oral radiology course taken in their first year were compared with their overall NBDHE scores and raw scores on the oral radiology and case study sections. Moderate correlations (0.3