Assessment: Strategies for Oral Health Education
A special issue of Oral (ISSN 2673-6373).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2026 | Viewed by 70
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Assessment in oral health education is vital to ensure public safety. Assessment practice is complex, fraught with issues around feedback, continuity between assessments, assessment for learning, student literacy in assessment, competence versus competency, authentic assessment, artificial intelligence, differential attainment, and student satisfaction. This Special Issue focuses on these challenges in an attempt to better understand the issues and how assessment design can be improved and rendered more effective.
This Special Issue of Oral does not view assessment solely as an event, but as a process that links teaching, curriculum, learning outcomes, pedagogy, and professional ethics and values. We explore assessment practices to identify mechanisms and methodologies for improving or enhancing design.
We invite submissions that address topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Artificial intelligence and authentic assessment;
- Machine learning and assessment;
- Standard setting of assessment;
- Contemporary psychometric/statistical analysis of assessments;
- Competence- or competency-based education;
- Assessment for/as learning;
- Formative assessment;
- Summative assessment;
- Feedback paradigms;
- Differential attainment/attainment gap.
We also invite submissions from non-clinicians or educators, particularly those with a research interest in or around assessment. Submissions may include original research articles, reviews, short communications, commentaries, and case studies. Submissions may use qualitative, or quantitative, or mixed-methods approaches.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Adam S. Hasan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence and authentic assessment
- competence- or competency-based education
- assessment for/as learning
- formative assessment
- summative assessment
- feedback paradigms
- differential attainment/attainment gap
- community dentistry
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