Assessment and Evaluation Committee

It consists of a Chair, appointed by the Dean, and 5 faculty members with expertise in assessment and evaluation, who appointed upon the Chair’s recommendation and the Dean’s approval.

As parts of its duties, roles, and responsibilities regarding the assessment and evaluation, the Committee:

1. Informs the faculty members, when necessary, about preparation of the course exams, including midterms, general exams, resit exams, clinical practice exams, and makeup exams.
2. Ensures the integrated and proper carrying out of the educational programme, evaluates the feedback from students and faculty members after midterms and general exams, and providing information to the Dean, the Head of the Academic Coordination Unit, and the Education Committee.
3. Determines the assessment and evaluation methods in the pre-graduation educational programme, and offers the relevant rules to the Academic Coordination.
4. Contributes to the trainings of the academicians of the Faculty of Dentistry for the assessment and evaluation.
5. Periodically reviews the assessment and evaluation methods practised, and ensures that these methods are being renewed to increase their validity and reliability.
6. Evaluates the exams technically to ensure that they are suitable for the objectives, standardized, and neutral, as well as have a high level of assessment reliability.
7. Follows the national and international practices in assessment and evaluation, and informs the Dean’s Office and other units about them.
8. Creates working groups when necessary, and draws on the opinions of participants from other institutions.
9. Works in coordination with other dental education groups, and collaborates with them when necessary.
10. The Committee holds regular meetings every two months in line with its agenda.