THE CORRELATION OF ACADEMIC FACTORS AND THE SCORE OF THE NATIONAL BOARD DENTAL EXAMINATION PART I (PRE-CLINIC) OF DENTAL STUDENTS, FACULTY OF DENTISTRY, SRINAKHARINWIROT UNIVERSITY (original) (raw)

The objectives of this study was to examine the relationship among academic factors and the National Board Dental Examination Part I (NBDE: Pre-clinic) score of 65 dental students of the Faculty of Dentistry, Srinakarinwirot University. The academic factors collected from the Division Of Education Service, including (1) the general informations; gender, birth place. (2) The admission criteria; the types of admission, the high-school grade point averages (GPAs), the entrance admission score. (3) The academic performance; the overall GPAs, pre-clinical grades on three subsections of the NBDE Part I. (4) The NBDE-preparation; pretest score, the lesson review and the extra-curriculum activities. Descriptive statistics were computed for all studying variables. Simple linear regression was computed to analysis the relationship between academic factors and NBDE Part I score. Goodness of fit for the models was evaluated using the R-squared value. Statistic significant associations were those with p-value<0.05. The result was the entrance admission score, overall GPAs were statistically significantly associated with performance on all three subsections of the NDBE part I score and the overall GPAs was only significant factor for predicting NBDE part I score.