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The Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations (JCNDE) is pleased to announce that Dr. Kristin Z. Victoroff, Assistant Professor, School of Dental Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University, is the 2007-2008 recipient of the Innovative Dental Assessment Research and Development (IDEA) Grant.
Dr. Victoroff was awarded a $59,922 three- year grant at the JCNDE March 2008 meeting for her research project entitled: Interactive Virtual Reality Patient-based Scenarios for Student Assessment.
Previous IDEA Grant Recipients:
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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