Exam 11: Service-Learning: Preparing Dental Hygienists for Collaborative Practice

The nation's major health promotion agency responsible for monitoring, protecting, and improving the public's health is the:

Experiential learning takes place in _________ situations.

You are hired as a new faculty member by a dental hygiene program and are assigned to teach the community oral health course. You review the course materials, learning activities, and projects for the course handed down by the previous course instructor, who has retired. Never having taught before and not having had a positive experience in your community oral health course as a student, you decide to do some research on different ways to teach in relation to community oral health. -As you learn about experiential learning, you also learn about service-learning (S-L). You find that all the following EXCEPT one are true about S-L. Which one is the EXCEPTION?

A formal ___________ minimizes disruption to the service-learning program.

You are hired as a new faculty member by a dental hygiene program and are assigned to teach the community oral health course. You review the course materials, learning activities, and projects for the course handed down by the previous course instructor, who has retired. Never having taught before and not having had a positive experience in your community oral health course as a student, you decide to do some research on different ways to teach in relation to community oral health. -Your primary experience with learning as a student outside of clinical courses was the traditional cognitive approach. You had limited experience with experiential learning. You research different teaching approaches and find information about the value of experiential learning. Which statement accurately describes experiential learning in comparison with or in contrast to the traditional cognitive approach?

Two resources integral to the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors include the Basic Screening Survey (BSS) for Children and Adults and:

The future of dental hygiene is:

In service-learning, it is always good to have alternate plans, just in case. Another term used to describe managing possibilities is:

You are hired as a new faculty member by a dental hygiene program and are assigned to teach the community oral health course. You review the course materials, learning activities, and projects for the course handed down by the previous course instructor, who has retired. Never having taught before and not having had a positive experience in your community oral health course as a student, you decide to do some research on different ways to teach in relation to community oral health. -Which of the following presents the steps in the service-learning (S-L) process in order?

Which of the following is an example of a public health resource that could be integrated into service-learning projects having to do with oral health?

The five steps in the service-learning process are collaboration, orientation, preparation, ___________, and evaluation.

You are hired as a new faculty member by a dental hygiene program and are assigned to teach the community oral health course. You review the course materials, learning activities, and projects for the course handed down by the previous course instructor, who has retired. Never having taught before and not having had a positive experience in your community oral health course as a student, you decide to do some research on different ways to teach in relation to community oral health. -All of the following EXCEPT one are benefits of service-learning (S-L). Which one is the EXCEPTION?

The evaluation part of a service-learning project is a continuous process that can be divided into two phases: formative evaluation and ________ evaluation.

You are hired as a new faculty member by a dental hygiene program and are assigned to teach the community oral health course. You review the course materials, learning activities, and projects for the course handed down by the previous course instructor, who has retired. Never having taught before and not having had a positive experience in your community oral health course as a student, you decide to do some research on different ways to teach in relation to community oral health. -You discuss the service-learning (S-L) approach with the dental hygiene program director, who expresses concern about risk management for the S-L projects. Which stakeholders should be involved in planning for risk management?

You are hired as a new faculty member by a dental hygiene program and are assigned to teach the community oral health course. You review the course materials, learning activities, and projects for the course handed down by the previous course instructor, who has retired. Never having taught before and not having had a positive experience in your community oral health course as a student, you decide to do some research on different ways to teach in relation to community oral health. -You discuss your ideas about service-learning (S-L) with a colleague from the nutrition department whom you met during the campus-wide new faculty orientation at the beginning of the school year. She will be teaching the community course in the nutrition department and is also interested in implementing S-L. During your discussions you explore the possibility of nutrition and dental hygiene students working together on an S-L project and discuss possibly reaching out to other health professions departments in your college to get involved as well. All of the following statements EXCEPT one are true in relation to this approach. Which one is the EXCEPTION?

An example of an experiential learning method is a(n):