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The Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations is pleased to announce that Doctor Elsbeth Kalenderian, Assistant Dean for Clinical Affairs, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, is the 2008-2009 recipient of the Innovative Dental Assessment Research and Development (IDEA) Grant.
Doctor Kalenderian was awarded a $59,750 two-year grant at the Joint Commission’s April 2009 meeting for her research project, entitled Early Performance in the Patient Doctor Relationship as a Predictor of Success in Dental Education.
Previous IDEA Grant Recipients:
2007-2008
Case Western Reserve University
Principle Investigator: Kristin Z. Victoroff. DDS, PhD
Grant Amount/Duration: $59,922/ 3 years
Project Title: Interactive Virtual Reality Patient-based Scenarios for Student Assessment
2006-2007
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Principle Investigator: Fritz Drasgow, PhD
Grant Amount/Duration: $30,000/1 year
Project Title: Conspiracies and Test Compromise: An Evaluation of the Resistance of Testing Systems to Cheating
Abstract coming soon.
2005–2006
University of Kentucky-College of Dentistry
Principal Investigator: Brian R. MacPherson, PhD
Grant Amount / Duration: $29,968 / 3 years
Project Title: An Innovative Media-Driven Testing Mechanism Integrating Basic and Clinical Science
Abstract | PDF file/24k 
University of Illinois at Chicago- College of Medicine
Principal Investigator: Steven M. Downing, PhD
Grant Amount / Duration: $29,488 / 1 year
Project Title: Maximizing Measurement Efficiency and Reliability: Optimum Number of Options for Multiple-choice Items and Optimum Number of Items for Case-based Testlets
Abstract | PDF file/24k
Contact Information
Dr. Tsung-Hsun Tsai
Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations
211 E. Chicago Avenue, Suite 600
Chicago, Illinois 60611
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