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This session provides dental hygiene faculty with practical, evidence-based strategies to improve student performance on the NBDHE. Participants will explore high-impact teaching methods, integrate case-based learning across the curriculum, and implement calibrated assessment techniques aligned with board-style questions. Emphasis will be placed on identifying at-risk students, strengthening clinical reasoning skills, and using data-driven approaches to enhance program outcomes.

Objectives:

1. Identify high-risk content areas and cognitive barriers affecting NBDHE performance 
2. Implement case-based and active learning strategies into didactic and clinical courses
3. Develop calibrated, board-style exam questions aligned with NBDHE expectations
4. Use student performance data to guide targeted remediation
5. Apply faculty calibration techniques to ensure consistency in teaching and evaluation

Educators Platform Masterminds are dynamic two-hour virtual sessions building on each other’s challenges, ideas and successes in the presence of a content expert. Mastermind sessions are thoughtfully facilitated to create an environment for like-minded colleagues to share and learn from one another with the goal of collective professional growth and development. Sessions are uniquely tailored to the needs of participants. Those attending will have the opportunity to create strong connections with other participants to last a whole career.

More about our content expert: Dr. Vandenbush is a clinical practitioner and educator. She currently serves on the Commission on Dental Hygiene Review Committee, is part of two NBDHE test writing committees, is a CDCA/ADEX clinical dental hygiene examiner and a past CODA site visitor. Her experience with analog film, phosphor plate technology, sensor imaging, and 2D/3D imaging has kept her at the forefront of dental radiology. With over 15 years of teaching dental radiology, Dr. Vandenbush will present dental radiography techniques, current dental technology, tips and best practices, while providing an open platform for discussion of interest for the practitioner and educator.

Attendees of Educators Platform Mastermind sessions will earn 2 CEU in Educational Methods.