The status of the scholarship of teaching and learning in dental education.

The purpose of this study was to determine the current status of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) within academic dentistry. A twenty-two-item survey was distributed to faculty members of American Dental Education Association (ADEA) member schools asking about their awareness of SoTL practices, perceived barriers to SoTL application, and ways to enhance SoTL activity. Four hundred thirty surveys with equal distribution of assistant, associate, and full professors were received (this may be considered a response rate of 5.

Developing dental faculty for the future: ADEA/AAL Institute for Teaching and Learning, 2006-09.

This report summarizes the history and curriculum of the American Dental Education Association/Academy for Academic Leadership Institute for Teaching and Learning (ADEA/AAL ITL) Program for Dental School Faculty, describes participant feedback, and reviews how the program serves the faculty development initiatives of the American Dental Education Association. The fifty-hour program (6.5 days), conducted in two phases at collaborating dental schools, enhances core academic competencies of new and transitional faculty, including faculty members whose responsibilities include predoctoral, allied, and postdoctoral dental education.

An experimental evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of the leadup activity.

The positive effects of a leadup activity on the production of intracoronal operative preparations have been documented in earlier studies. However, an absence of certain controls may have jeopardized the validity of the earlier study, and an adequate test of the innovation's efficiency was not undertaken. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the effects of a leadup activity implemented as part of the scheduled laboratory course, when the amount of supervision provided to the experimental subjects during the entire course was reduced significantly, and when subjects were assigned randomly to the two conditions.