Abstracto

Generic Skills Measurement of Students at Fukuoka Dental College: The Usefulness of the Progress Report on Generic Skills (PROG) Test

Uchida Ryuji, Kodama Jun, Maruta Michito, Okamoto Fujio, Kawaguchi Tomohiro, Ohgi Kimiko and Ishikawa Hiroyuki

In recent years, university education has been called upon to cultivate new abilities known as “generic skills,” which have been defined in various ways by the different ministries and agencies advocating their necessity. These generic skills are also indispensable for dentistry graduates and skills training is important in the context of dental education. However, while conventional dental education has heretofore conducted assessments with regard to knowledge, understanding and professional ability when evaluating learning results, higherorder integrative capabilities such as generic skills have not been evaluated. Therefore, after introducing the Progress Report on Generic Skills (PROG) Test as an evaluation method for measuring generic skills to examine their relationship with academic achievement. Administering PROG Test soon after the time of admission, it was possible to measure generic skills at the time of admission, within which the overall literacy results were related to academic ability at the time of admission and subsequent academic performance. We can report the suggested possibility that the PROG test may be used to evaluate generic skills among dentistry students.